SOLUTION: the crowd that heard the President speak was estimated to be 10000 people.The actual crowd could be 750 people more or less than this. what are the possible values for the actual c

Question 53286: the crowd that heard the President speak was estimated to be 10000 people.The actual crowd could be 750 people more or less than this. what are the possible values for the actual crowd size?
Found 2 solutions by Nate, funmath:
Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
10,000 + 750 >= x >= 10,000 - 750

Answer by funmath(2933) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
10,000-750=9,250
10,000+750=10,750
The crowd could be as small as 9,250 and as big as 10,750
if the crowd =x you can write the inequality as:

and

or even as:

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