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    The document presents a mixture problem where a crown was crafted from gold and possibly silver. It provides that the crown weighed 500g total and had a volume of 9050cm3. Using the densities of gold and silver, two equations were written: one for the total weight, and one for the total volume. Solving the two equations simultaneously revealed that the crown contained 500g of gold and 50g of silver.

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    7.3: Mixture Problems MAT.ALG.

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    SOLUTION: The Golden Crown

    Question: Now let’s examine the role of linear equations in this purity assessment. Let’s assume
    that the king gave 500 grams of gold to the goldsmith, and the goldsmith crafted a 500-gram
    crown. Archimedes determined the volume of the crown to be 9050 cubic centimeters, and he
    knew that densities of gold and silver are 19 g/cm3 and 10 g/cm3, respectively. How many grams
    of silver, if any, were used to replace gold in the crown?

    Answer:

    Let the crown consist of x grams of gold and y grams of silver.

    Since the total weight is 500 grams, we can write the equation:

    x+ y=500

    Since density of gold is 19 g/cm3, the volume of x grams of gold is 19x cm3. Similarly, the
    volume of y grams of silver is 10y cm3.

    The total volume of the crown was found to be 9050 cm3. Therefore, we can write the equation:

    19 x +10 y=9050

    Now we have two equations in two unknowns.

    We can rewrite the first equation as x=500− y and substitute this into the second equation:

    19( 500− y )+10 y=9050


    y=50

    Therefore, the crown contained 50 grams of silver.

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