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Algebra.Com's Answer #187240 by CharlesG2(834)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! Dionne has six steel balls of equal mass. If she puts five of them in one pan of a beam balance and one ball and a 100 g mass in the other pan, the pans balance each other. What is the mass of each steel ball?\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x=mass\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "5*x=100+x \n" ); document.write( "5*x-x=100 \n" ); document.write( "4*x=100 \n" ); document.write( "x=25 \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |