To find the weight of the gold in a 22 karat gold object, multiply the object's weight by 0.917. To find the weight of the gold in an 18 karat gold object, multiply the object's weight by 0.583. A 22 karat gold statue and a 14 karat gold statue both weigh 73.5 ounces. Which one contains more gold? How much more gold does it contain?
--problem does not give what to multiply 14 karats by.
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To determine which statue contains more gold, we need to calculate the weight of the gold in each statue using the given formulas. However, since you mentioned that the problem does not specify what to multiply 14 karat gold by, we can assume it to be similar to the calculation for 22 and 18 karat gold.
To find the weight of the gold in a 22 karat gold statue, multiply its weight by 0.917. So, for a 73.5 ounce gold statue, the weight of the gold would be 73.5 * 0.917 = 67.3055 ounces.
To find the weight of the gold in a 14 karat gold statue, we can use the same formula as before, assuming a similar linear relationship. In this case, let's multiply the weight of the statue by a factor of 0.5. So, for a 73.5 ounce gold statue, the weight of the gold would be 73.5 * 0.5 = 36.75 ounces.
Comparing the weights of the gold in the two statues, we can see that the 22 karat gold statue contains more gold. Specifically, it contains 67.3055 - 36.75 = 30.5555 ounces more gold than the 14 karat gold statue.