Question

1. What is the y-inter slope of the graph? What does it mean in terms of this situation?

2.what is the slope of the graph? What does it mean in this situation?

3. How many hours will it take for the candle to burn all the way down to 0 inches? Explain how you know.

Answer 1

1. the y-intercept is 9.5 and it means the starting length of the candle

2. the slope is -1/2 and it means that the candle burns 1/2 an inch every hour

3. it burns an inch every 2 hours, it is 9.5 inches long, so 19 hours it'll take to burn.