Substance A and substance B are mixed together. To separate the mixture, water is added, and substance A is filtered out. Then, the remaining liquid is heated to remove the water, leaving a residue of substance B. Which statement about substance A and substance B could be correct? Substance A is rice, and substance B is sugar.
Substance A is rice, and substance B is sugar.

Substance A is sugar, and substance B is instant coffee.
Substance A is sugar, and substance B is instant coffee.

Substance A is sand, and substance B is alcohol.
Substance A is sand, and substance B is alcohol.

Substance A is alcohol, and substance B is salt.

The correct answer would be that substance A is rice, and substance B is sugar.

For substance A to be filtered out, it means that A is a water-insoluble substance and for substance B to be recoverable by evaporating off the water, it means that B is water-soluble.

Thus, A can neither be sugar nor alcohol because neither can be recovered by filtration. Also, B can neither be coffee nor alcohol because they can not be recovered as residue through evaporation of water.

Therefore, the only correct answer is that substance A is rice, and substance B is sugar because rice can be filtered out from water while the water-soluble sugar can be recovered by evaporating the water.

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dna is made up of six smaller molecules -- a five carbon sugar called deoxyribose, a phosphate molecule and four different nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine).

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