Question

Jovie is maintaining a camp fire. She has kept the fire steadily burning for 10hours with 15 logs. She wants to know how many hours (h) she could have kept the fire going with 9 logs. She assumes all logs are the same.

Please help!

Answer 1

Answer:6

Explanation:

Answer 2

You are given following data:

15 logs - 10 hours,

9 logs - x hours.

Use proportion to determine unknown value of x:

`(15)/(9)=(10)/(x).`

Then

`15\cdot x=9\cdot 10,\\ \\x=(90)/(15)=6\ hours.`

Answer: 6 hours