Answer:
- 1.25 hours or 1 hour and 15 minutes
Step-by-step explanation:
<em>Question</em>
- <em>Lisa lit a candle with a height of 8 inches. When lit, this candle loses 10% of its original height every hour. </em>
- <em>Please complete the following sentence by writing the number in the blank.
Until the candle has been burning for at least _______ hours, the height of Jennifer's candle will be more than 7 inches.</em>
<u>Candle looses 10% of 8 inches, it equals:</u>
- 8*0.1 = 0.8 inches an hour
<u>Let x be required time, then:</u>
- 8 - 0.8x > 7
- 0.8x < 8 - 7
- 0.8x < 1
- x < 1/0.8
- x < 1.25
- or 1 hour 15 minutes
I believe you're asking about the one-sided limit,
Recall the definition of absolute value:
• 
if 
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if 
Since we're approaching -4 from the left, we're effectively focusing on a domain of 
or 
. So, by the definition above, we have 
. Then in the limit, we have
Answer: So, all you have to do is divide in this situation. He starts with a board that is 12 feet long, keep that in mind. If he cuts that into 8 pieces it's like he is dividing. So 12 divided by eight or 12/8 would be 1.5. Your answer is that each piece would be 1.5ft long.
Answer:
1/3
Step-by-step explanation:
