Cholesterol Extraction using Soxhlet Method

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Homework Statement



During an experiment using Soxhlet Method to extract cholesterol from egg yolk, also using dicloromethane as a reagent, we crush half boiled egg yolk and put 80 cm3 of dicloromethane.

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Then comes a question which is assuming the maximum of absorption of the reagent-cholestrol is 550 nm, sugest a way to quantify it.

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I don't understand what should I answer here
 
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As worded it doesn't make much sense. Obviously it is about measuring concentrating using visible light spectrometer.