Question

A Ligustrum plant cell is exposed to an aqueous solution having sodium and chloride concentrations higher than the sodium and chloride concentrations of the cell interior. After thirty minutes, a biologist observes the cell under a microscope and states that the cell shows no evidence of having lost water. Which of the following best explains the observation?

Answer 1

what following ? actually the cell will gain more water by diffusion and will let more sodium chloride ions in because they will move from high concentration to low concentration

Answer 2

: None of the above. The person with the microscope doesn't know what he's doing -- most likely is unfamiliar with the workings of a microscope.
If you put a plant cell into a hypertonic solution, the plant cell does lose water to the environment, mostly through shrinking of the central vacuole. The cell membrane pulls away from the cell wall.