Suppose that you have a splinter that is embedded so deep in your foot that you cannot remove it with tweezers. How could you use what you learned in this unit as a first-aid remedy in this situation?
A. Use active transport to your advantage to draw water into your foot.
B. Use osmosis to your advantage by placing your foot in a hypotonic solution.
C. Use osmosis to your advantage by placing your foot in a hypertonic solution.
D. Use an artificial concentration gradient to draw water into your foot.
E. Use osmosis to your advantage by placing your foot in an isotonic solution.
Answer: C. Use osmosis to your advantage by placing your foot in a hypertonic solution.
it will make the sole area softer as moisture will enter into the skin and it will become easier to pull out the splinter deep embedded into the sole.
Hypertonic solution has less solute concentration than the other medium(in this case it will be foot) so water will enter from lower solute concentration to higher solute concentration which will he from solution to foot making it softer.
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