A butcher has a beam balance and only two masses of 3.5kg and 5kg.Explain how he can manage to measure for a customer 1.5kg of...

      

A butcher has a beam balance and only two masses of 3.5kg and 5kg.Explain how he can manage to measure for a customer 1.5kg of meat at once using only the two masses

  

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Masinde
*Measure 5kg of meat using the 5kg mass.
*Using the 3.5 kg mass,the Butcher measures 3.5kg of meat from the 5kg of meat he measured previously.
*The remaining piece of meat obtained after measuring 3.5kg of meat from the 5kg will be 1.5kg.
Mr Masinde answered the question on April 24, 2018 at 13:33


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