The weight of 1000 identical samples of a substance is 10 pounds. What is the weight of 10 samples?

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anonymous · Answer

is it 100??? idk. lol.

anonymous · Answer

wait, would it be 0.1?

lgbasallote · Answer

hmm it depends...do you mean the combined weight of 1000 identical samples?

anonymous · Answer

No clue, that's the exact question/problem lol.

lgbasallote · Answer

it smells like a trick question...it depends on the interpretation.. the weight of  1000 identical samples may mean that the weight of 1000 samples are all 10 lbs...or that the combined weight of these is 10 lbs...so im going to give you 2 equations...one is that all of them weigh 10 lbs...the other would be...

1000x = 10

so x = 10/1000 or 1/100

so 10 of these would be 10(1/100) = 1/10 = 0.1

anonymous · Answer

I'll try 0.1 and cross my fingers! haha. (It's an online course)

lgbasallote · Answer

lol cross it well :P because the way i interpreted this is that it's a trick question