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An experiment was set up as shown below.

The set up was left for 30 minutes.
(a) State the expected results
(b) Explain your answer in (a) above

Answer Text:
a)- Visking tubing will become swollen/bigger or increased in size.
b)Sucrose solution is hypertonic compared to the water in the beaker (or water is hypotonic compared to sucrose in the beaker). Water moves from the
beaker into visking tubing by osmosis through semi-permeable visking tubing, making visking tubing swell or increase in size.