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Ella let a candle as part of our holiday celebration the candle was 10 cm long and burn at a constant rate for 5 seconds what was the unit rate of the candle burning​

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Answer:

Explanation:

If we are to ASSUME that the originally 10 cm long candle was completely consumed in 5 seconds.

Then

10 cm / 5 s = 2 cm/s

Which is much closer to a firecracker fuse burn rate than that of a candle.

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