SOLUTION: A box of cereal shouldweigh 397 g. the quality controle inspector weighs every 50th box. The inspector rejects any box that s not wthin 10 g of the ideal weights.write and solve an

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Question 156243: A box of cereal shouldweigh 397 g. the quality controle inspector weighs every 50th box. The inspector rejects any box that s not wthin 10 g of the ideal weights.write and solve an absolute value inequality for this situation.
please describe how you did this or show your work for my future reference

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A box of cereal shouldweigh 397 g. the quality control inspector weighs every 50th box. The inspector rejects any box that is not wthin 10 g of the ideal weights. write and solve an absolute value inequality for this situation.
please describe how you did this or show your work for my future reference
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The weights may be between 397-10 and 397+10
Let the weights be "x"
INEQUALITY 397-10 <= x <=397+10
Subtract 397 along the line to get:
-10 <= x-397 <= +10
Change to absolute value notation:
|x-397| <= 10
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Cheers,
Stan H.


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