Apply the lever rule on the solid tie line. All compositions are copper mass percentages:
Thus the equilibrium material is 77.1% and 22.9% by mass just below the eutectic temperature. These are phase fractions; converting them to volume fractions would require densities.
The room-temperature endpoints are pure Ag and pure Cu. Conservation of the total copper mass therefore gives
The answer is 72% silver phase and 28% copper phase by mass. The change from the high-temperature fractions is caused by decreasing solid solubility: the phases reject the opposite component during equilibrium cooling. Simply retaining the eutectic-temperature lever-rule fractions would violate the stipulated room-temperature equilibrium compositions.

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