Practice question · Estimate
Bronze is copper plus tin. What percentage tin makes good bronze?
Estimate on a scale from 0% (0) to 50% (50).
Hints
- A small fraction, but an indispensable one.
- About a tenth.
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10 (answers within ±3 count)
Why
~10%. One part in ten, sourced from the far end of a continent, is what turned soft copper into the weapon that defined an age, and what made every palace dependent on strangers.
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