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The weight of 10 identical samples of a substance is 0.1 pound. What is the weight of 1000 samples

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The answer is 10................






User Purush Pawar
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well, you can do this two ways, you can divide .1 from 10 to find out how much one sample weighs and multiply it by 1000 or you can take .1 and multiply that by 100 since 1000/10= 100
either way you get 10 pounds.
User Manjunath K Mayya
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