SOLUTION: 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

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Question 106949This question is from textbook Structure and Method
: 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 ball? This question is from textbook Structure and Method

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1B+100=5B
1B-5B=-100
-4B=-100
B=-100/-4
B=25 WEIGHT OF EACH BALL.