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Little six-year-old Suzy is playing an innocent game in her back yard. She mixes an alloy containing 14% silver with an alloy containing 24% silver to create 50 kg of an alloy with 18% silver. How many kilograms of each alloy did little Suzy use? a)

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The answer is that is25%
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