SOLUTION: The minimum sustained wind speed of a category 1 hurricane is 74 miles per hour. The maximum sustained wind speed is 95 miles per hour. Write an absolute value a equation that repr

Question 1147428: The minimum sustained wind speed of a category 1 hurricane is 74 miles per hour. The maximum sustained wind speed is 95 miles per hour. Write an absolute value a equation that represents the minimum and maximum speed. Let v represent the wind speed.
Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Your equation is


    | v - 84.5 | <= 10.5.     (1)


Notice that 84.5 is the mid-point between 74 and 95.


Equation  (1)  says that the diapason (the range) of possible values of speed of wind is the interval  10.5 units  
from the mid-point value.

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