Two candles were lit and are burning. Candle A has an initial height of 10 inches and burning down at a
rate of 1.5 inches per hour. Candle B is burning down
at a rate of 0.5 inches per hour and has an initial
height of 6 inches. Let t represent time in hours and
h represent the total height of the candle.

A - 6 hours and 40 minutes

B - 12 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

Candle A - After 6 hours: the candle will be 1 inch tall, because 6 times 1.5 = 9. You need an extra 40 minutes for the candle to burn completely, because 10/1.5 = 6 and 2/3

Candle B - After 12 hours, the candle will be completely burned, because 6/.5 = 12.

Equation - Initial height/inches burned per hour = time it takes for cnadle to burn down completely

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )

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