SOLUTION: A jeweler has six rings, each weighing 8 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 8
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Question 729274: A jeweler has six rings, each weighing 8 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 josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source):
Initially, amount of alloy is grams. Amount of gold in the initial alloy is grams.
Begin to construct the G(x) function.
Addition of x grams of silver changes the fraction of gold. This fraction may be represented as a decimal. , where G is the fraction of alloy which is gold. We remind ourselves that G is a function of x. .