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Question 162366: dianne 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? Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Dianne 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?
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Let x = mass of 1 steel ball
:
5x = x + 100
:
5x - x = 100
:
4x = 100
x =
x = 25 gr
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Check solution in original equation
5(25) = 25 + 100
