Answer:Let Y = height
Let X = time
Height is a linear function of time, so Y = mX + b, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.
We can calculate the slope from the given values (8,20.4) and (19,18.2)
Slope = (y2 - y1) / (x2 - x1) = (18.2 - 20.4) / (19 - 8) = -2.2 / 11 = -0.2
This means that the height of the candle is going down by 0.2 cm per hour
Since 16 hours is 8 hours after the first data point of (8,20.4), the height will go down by 8 * (-0.2) = -1.6 cm in the 8 hours between hour 8 and hour 16.
So the height of the candle after 16 hours = 20.4 - 1.6 = 18.8 centimeters
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