SOLUTION: An essay contest requires that essay entries consist of 500 words with an absolute deviation of at most 30 words. What are the possible number of words the essay can have??
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Question 1012570: An essay contest requires that essay entries consist of 500 words with an absolute deviation of at most 30 words. What are the possible number of words the essay can have??
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This means that the essay must contain 500 +/- 30 words.
Thus it must contain from 470 to 530 words.
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