Question

You are given a small beaker of solution at room temperature. You add a bit of solute to the solution and it dissolves. The original solution was

Answer 1

Unsaturated

Step-by-step explanation:

An unsaturated solution contains less solute than it can normally hold at a particular temperature.

This kind of solution can also dissolve more solute.

Hence, when a bit of solute is added to this solution, the solute dissolves indicating that the original solution was unsaturated.