A student makes a Koolaid solution by diluting 61.2 mg of Koolaid with water to a total volume of 25.00 ml using a volumetric flask. She reads the absorbance at 500 nm and finds it is too concentrated. The student then dilutes a small sample of the Koolaid solution by taking 0.500 ml of the solution and mixing it with 0.500 ml of water (a ½ dilution). The absorbance of the ½ diluted solution is 0.812.