A 3-inch candle burns down in 4 hours. If b represents how much of the candle, in inches, has burned away at any time given in hours, t, write a proportional equation for b in terms of t that matches the context.

You eat 8 strawberries and your friend eats 12 strawberries from a bowl. there are 20 strawberries left. which equation and solution give the original number of strawberries?

Aportion of a hiking trail slopes downward at about an 84° angle. to the nearest tenth of a flot, what is the value of x, the distance the hiker traveled along the path, if he has traveled a horizontal distance of 120 feet? a. 143.3 b. 12.5 c. 120.7 d. 130.2

Due to bad planning, two of the local schools have their annual plays on the same weekend. while 457 people attend one, and 372 attend the other, only 104 people were able to attend both. how many people went to at least one play?