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Jovie is maintaining a camp fire. She has kept the fire steadily burning for 10hours with 15 logs. She wants to know how many hours (h) she could have kept the fire going with 9 logs. She assumes all logs are the same.

Please help!

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You are given following data:

15 logs - 10 hours,

9 logs - x hours.

Use proportion to determine unknown value of x:

[tex]\dfrac{15}{9}=\dfrac{10}{x}.[/tex]

Then

[tex]15\cdot x=9\cdot 10,\\ \\x=\dfrac{90}{15}=6\ hours.[/tex]

Answer: 6 hours

Answer:6


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