adityar said:PEOPLE it is not respiration or digestion, think wider, it's ABSORBTION!!!!
No doubt about that, it definitely is absorbtion...
Now what is absorption? According to the syllabus, it is the movement of digested food molecules through the wall of the intestine into the blood or lymph (or in this case into the solution)
Now if I remember correctly the question asked WHY the volume/concentration of glucose decreased. The answer is not absorbtion by itself, you have to explain that the living cells in the small intestine layer respire, which releases energy that is used in active transport to enable the absorbtion of glucose.
Think wider, dude ;-)