A carpentry tool has replaceable hexagonal heads. The diagram below shows the replaceable head. *Picture not drawn to scale What
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Answer:
tons of high steel and
tons of low steel
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x be the number of tons of high grade steel and y be the number of tons ow low grade steel needed.
In x tons of high grade steel there are
tons of iron
tons of magnese
In y tons of low grade steel there are
tons of iron
tons of magnese
NASA orders 500 tons of steel, so
and specifies that it must be in the proportion 80% iron and 20% magnese, so
From the first equation,
Substitute it into the second equation: