Multiple choice

What method will her mother have to use to separate the flour and the pulses?

Directions: Read the scenario given below carefully and answer the question that follows.

Trisha was running in the kitchen when she suddenly knocked into her mother and upset the dishes she was working with. The flour her mother had taken out to make chappatis and the pulses she was going to wash for dinner had gotten mixed up.

  1. Filtration

  2. Evaporation

  3. Winnowing

  4. Sedimentation

  5. Sieving
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. Sieving is used when components of a mixture have different sizes. In this case the flour is fine and the pulses are bigger. So, by sieving the flour can be separated from the pulses.

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