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What direction will water move if a cell is placed in a hypotonic solution?

Answer 1

the water will move into the cell

Water will enter the cell by osmosis from a region of higher water potential to a lower water potential down a water potential gradient across a partially permeable membrane because the hypotonic solution has a higher water potential than the cell.

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Answer 2

Vivian Aronson

Water will move into the cell, causing it to swell and potentially burst if the cell wall is not present.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.