SOLUTION: A jeweler has five rings, each weighing 16 grams, made of an alloy of 10% silver and 90% gold. He decides to melt down the rings and add enough silver to reduce the gold content to
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Question 914456: A jeweler has five rings, each weighing 16 grams, made of an alloy of 10% silver and 90% gold. He decides to melt down the rings and add enough silver to reduce the gold content to 80%.
(a) Construct a model that gives the fraction G(x) of the new alloy that is pure gold. (Let x represent the number of grams of silver added.) Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):