Question

The U.S. Mint sells 2 ounces of American Eagle gold coins to a collector. Each coin weighs one-tenth of an ounce. How many gold coins were sold to the collector?

Answer 1

Answer:

20 gold coins.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent number of gold coins.

We have been given that each coin weighs one-tenth of an ounce, so weight of x gold coins would be $\frac{1}{10}x$.

We are also told that U.S. Mint sells 2 ounces of American Eagle gold coins to a collector.

We can represent this information in an equation as:

$\frac{1}{10}x=2$

Multiply both sides by 10:

$10*\frac{1}{10}x=2*10$

$x=20$

Therefore, 20 gold coins were sold to the collector.