As a 7 inch candle burns down, its height decreases 1/2 inch each hour. How many hours does it take for the candle to burn completely?

As a 7-inch candle burns down, its height decreases 1/2 inch each hour.  How many hours does it take for the candle to burn completely?

Explanation:

It would be 14 because the candle is 7 inches and it loses 1/2 inch each hour.

you need to take a look at the periodic system in order to sort these elements into pairs that would most likely exhibit similar chemical properties. first, you need to find elements that are found in the same group (groups are vertical in the periodic system), and then to see whether they have the same valence number. if they meet these criteria, they will have similar properties.

the first pair: ne (neon) and kr (krypton), are noble gases found in group 8

the second pair: li (lithium) and k (potassium), found in group 1

the third pair: s (sulfur) and te (tellurium), found in group 6

periodic trends is an atom that gets larger as the number of electronic shells increase, the radius of atoms increases as you go down a certain group in the periodic table of elements. in general, the size of an atom will decrease as you move from left to right of a certain period.