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A 3-inch candle burns down in 3 hours. At what rate does the candle burn, in inches per hour?

User RGilkes
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Answer:

1 inch per hour

Explanation:

Let x represent inches burned per hour

The equation to finding the rate of the candle burning:

3x=3

For those who dont know, whenever you have a variable with a term, its basically multiplying, and we want to do the opposite to get x by itself, so we divide

x=3/3

Which can be simplified as:

x=1

Where x is the inches burned per hour, which equal 1

User Prashant Lakhlani
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Answer 1 inch per hour

Explanation:

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