THE POTATO CHALLENGE EXPLAINED

Here's a short explanation of the potato challenge I posed a few days ago.  It makes sense if you think about it.

Initially, there is one pound of non-evaporating potato stuff, or 1% of a 100 pounds. When the water content is 98% of the total weight, 2% will be non-evaporating potato stuff. So 2% of the new weight is still going to equal the initial one pound, since this pound of potato stuff does not evaporate ex hypothesi. 2% of 50 pounds is a pound. So the new weight of the potatoes would be 50 pounds.

"Dogged if I understand, but then again, I am just a plastic potato and I don't have to be college and career ready."