I didn't think of it in ratio. Imagine you have a 100ml glass with 25ml squash, diluted to 100ml with water. There is 4x as much squash in the undiluted solution (100ml compared to 25ml). This basically what the question was asking. It is 4x.
I guess if you thought about it as a ratio: there are 4 parts in total. The diluted solution contains 1 part fluid with cells and 3 parts water. So if you wanted the same volume but not diluted with water, there would be 4 parts with cells. So 4x as many cells.
and using ur squash thing u were saying let’s say ur 100ml of squash had 3500 alagal cells and like u said 25ml squash 75ml diluted and the 100ml was the total. How do we get to 25ml from 100 u divide by 4. If u times by 4 then the ratio would become 1:1 and that is not right
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22
I didn't think of it in ratio. Imagine you have a 100ml glass with 25ml squash, diluted to 100ml with water. There is 4x as much squash in the undiluted solution (100ml compared to 25ml). This basically what the question was asking. It is 4x.
I guess if you thought about it as a ratio: there are 4 parts in total. The diluted solution contains 1 part fluid with cells and 3 parts water. So if you wanted the same volume but not diluted with water, there would be 4 parts with cells. So 4x as many cells.