Math Adventures/Find the Light Gumball

Find the off-weight gumball.

You have 10 gumball machines, 9 make 1 oz gumballs and 1 makes .5 oz gumballs. You can use 1 scale 1 time - how do you figure out which machine is making the defective gumballs?

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