After letting the potatoes sit for a few days. The potato in the freshwater solution was soft and sticky, it could be easily squished it also had a bad scent because the potato had gone bad. However, the potato in the saltwater solution was firm and had become more narrow than before, it did not have a scent like the freshwater potato did. The solution that caused the potato to change the most in circumference and mass, was the saltwater solution. In the data table the potato in the fresh water had a starting circumference of 5cm and a starting mass of 4.40g. After sitting the solution the final circumference was 5.5cm and the final mass was 4.68g. The potato gained .5cm and .28g, osmosis caused this to happen because water is pure which means
