SOLUTION: An alloy is a mixture of metals suppose that a certain alloy is made by mixing 100 grams of an alloy that contains 28% copper with 28 grams of pure copper how many grams of copper

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Question 1205145: An alloy is a mixture of metals suppose that a certain alloy is made by mixing 100 grams of an alloy that contains 28% copper with 28 grams of pure copper how many grams of copper are in the resulting mixture? What percentage of the resulting mixture is copper?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) (Show Source):
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An alloy is a mixture of metals suppose that a certain alloy is made by mixing
100 grams of an alloy that contains 28% copper with 28 grams of pure copper how
many grams of copper are in the resulting mixture? What percentage of the
resulting mixture is copper.

| grams | percentage | grams of |of metal| of copper | copper -------|--------|--------------|------------ alloy | 100 | 28% = 0.28 |100(0.28)=28 -------|--------|--------------|--------- copper | 28 | 100% = 1.00 | 28(1.00)=28 -------|--------|--------------|------------ total | 128 | | 56 $%28matrix%286%2C1%2C%0D%0Afraction%2Cof%2Ccopper%2Cin%2Cresulting%2C+mixture%29%29$ Edwin