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In the present article, the authors investigate the existence and decay rates of the classical solution to a non-uniformly parabolic equation of the form \[ u_t + (\tfrac{1}{2}u^2)_x = tu_{xx},\quad x \in \mathbb{R},\quad t > 0, \] with the initial condition \(u(x,0) = u_0(x)\). The main aim of the article is to obtain the existence and decay rates of the classical solution to this problem. The method is to setup two successive approximations. One sequence convergence to a solution of the initial value problem. The other shows that, for any given \(t_0 > 0\), the limit function of the first sequence is a classical solution to the above problem for \(t > t_0 > 0\). The authors show how bounds of the derivatives to the classical solution \(u(x,t)\) depend explicitly on the interval with compact support in \((0,\infty)\). The properties of the classical solution obtained are discussed. Then the decay rate from any time \(t_0 > 0\) is studied. The authors obtain that the decay rate of \(\|u\|_{L^2}\) is the same as one the linear non-uniformly parabolic equation. However, comparing with the decay rate of the solution of the linear non-uniformly parabolic equation, it is conjectured that the decay rate of \(\|u_x\|\) is not optimal.