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
Answer:
The value of the car is 0.94 times the value of the car the previous year.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x = 0.3333333...
Then 10x = 3.3333333....
We have 9x = 3, so x = 3/9 or 1/3.
A straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface.. of a circle is a half the diameter.