SOLUTION: A quantity of 50%silver alloy is melted together with a quantity of 70%silver alloy to produce 500g of alloy containing 65% silver.How much of each alloy was used?
Question 715788: A quantity of 50%silver alloy is melted together with a quantity of 70%silver alloy to produce 500g of alloy containing 65% silver.How much of each alloy was used? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = grams of 50% alloy used
Let = grams of 70% alloy used = grams of silver in 50% alloy = grams of silver in 70% alloy
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125 grams of 50% alloy was used
375 grams of 70% alloy was used
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