SOLUTION: Question: When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, each bag must be within 6 balls of 360. Write an inequality for an acceptable number of golf balls in each bag. Which one

Question 553794: Question: When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, each bag must be within 6 balls of 360. Write an inequality for an acceptable number of golf balls in each bag.

Which one of these answers is correct? 354<= x<= 366
or absolute value of b-360<= 6
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Actually, both are correct:
Why? because:
Where b is the number of golf balls. Solve this for b.
or
or which can be written as:
which is identical to:
if you replace b with x.
RELATED QUESTIONS
When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, each bag must be within 6 balls of 360. Write (answered by asuar010)

I have been stuck on this problem for about 15 min. Please Help!! "When Spheres-R-Us... (answered by stanbon)

Jack had 333 bags of golf balls with bbb balls in each bag; then his friend gave him 666... (answered by Alan3354)

A bag contains 10 white golf balls and 6 striped golf balls. A golfer wants to add 112... (answered by Fombitz)

A concession stand charges $2.50 for a bag of popcorn. The stand has already sold 30 bags (answered by Fombitz)

combination one bag contains 6 white balls and 8 black, and a second bag contains 3... (answered by Boreal)

A golf bag contains 8 blue and 12 yellow golf balls. What is a reasonable prediction of... (answered by Theo)