What happens if you were to place a concentrated solution into a bag made of a semipermeable membrane and were to then suspend it in a very dilute solution?
A)The size of the suspended bag would decrease.
B)The size of the suspended bag would increase.
C)The size of the bag would not change.
D)The solutions would eventually reach the same concentration.
E)only c and d

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The size of the suspended bag would increase because water would move into the bag through osmosis, from the dilute solution to the concentrated solution, in an attempt to equalize the concentration on both sides of the semipermeable membrane.

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