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.

When rates are expressed as a quantity of 1, such as 2 feet per second or 5 miles per hour, they are called unit rates. if you have a multiple-unit rate such as 120 students for every 3 buses, and want to find the single-unit rate, write a ratio equal to the multiple-unit rate with 1 as the second term.