A chemist is conducting an experiment which involves a certain chemical reaction. He begins the experiment with 666 milliliters of the chemical, which is consumed by the reaction at a varying rate that is no more than 13 milliliters per minute. Partway through the experiment, the chemist measures the amount of chemical remaining. If there are 562 milliliters of the chemical left, what is the smallest number of minutes that could have passed?

8 Minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

since we are trying to find how many minutes have passed we first need to find how much substance was used during the time. we can do that by subtracting the leftover substance from the amount we started with.

666-562 = 104

Now that we know how much substance was used we can then use our conversion rate (13 per minute) and find how many minutes have passed by dividing.

104 / 13 = 8

this linear equation would have just one solution.

step-by-step explanation:

the reason why this would have one solution is that it is an expression with just one variable. since that variable is not raised to a power, it will always have just one solution.