SOLUTION: You have a 16 oz candle. On the directions of the candle, it says that if you burn it for 6 hours it will weigh 10 oz. Write an equation that represents the weight of the candle af

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Question 862151: You have a 16 oz candle. On the directions of the candle, it says that if you burn it for 6 hours it will weigh 10 oz. Write an equation that represents the weight of the candle after different amounts of time. Then graph your equation using graph paper.
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Letting represent time in hours and represent weight in ounces, you have two data points of the form , namely and

Use the two point form of an equation of a line to write the desired equation:



where and are the coordinates of the given points.

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