Vaishali Gupta, Shalini Bajaj and, Supriya D.Sheshadri Solutions for Exercise 6: Subject Enrichment

Calculate the following:
If a soil took half an hour to percolate $500 \mathrm{ml}$ of water, what is the rate of percolation of the soil? 

Calculate the following:

Priya poured a litre of water in a pot with a hole, filled with garden soil. After a while, she measured the amount of water collected in the beaker and it was $450 \mathrm{ml}$. Find the percentage of water absorption of the soil if it was $1.5 \mathrm{kg}$in the pot. ( Assume the density of water is $1 \mathrm{g}/\mathrm{ml}$ )