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Two candles of different sizes were lit. The 12cm candles burned at 0.5cm per hour and the 18 cm candles burned at 2cm per hour. How many hours did it take the two candle sizes to burn to the same size.?
I got 4 hrs but don’t think I did equation correctly
6 years ago

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R_scott
12 - .5 t = 18 - 2 t

solve for t

your result is correct
6 years ago

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