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monitta
3 years ago
12

Harriet works at the Mint, where new coins are made. Old and fake coins are also destroyed there. Harriet has 10 bags of $1 coin

s. All 10 bags contain the same number of coins. Harriet knows that nine bags contain only good coins and that one bag contains only fake coins. The fake coins are all about 0.5 gram short. Harriet has forgotten which bag contains the fake coins.
Harriet has a set of scales for weighing like the ones in the illustration. What is the lowest number of times she can weigh bags on the scales in order to find the bag of fake coins?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Aloiza [94]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

3 times

Step-by-step explanation:

She would have to weigh the fake coins and another bag of real coins to spot a difference, and then she would need to check another bag to see which was correct. Maybe thats right.

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