document.write( "Question 1208191: MANUFACTURING A hardware store sells bags of rock salt that are labeled as weighing 35 pounds. The equipment used to package the salt produces bags with a weight that is within 8 ounces of the label weight.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "MANUFACTURING A hardware store sells bags of rock salt that are labeled as weighing 35 pounds.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "        The correct question should ask about an absolute value  INEQUALITY - - - not about an absolute value equation.\r
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document.write( "8 ounces = 0.5 of a pound.\r\n" );
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document.write( "An absolute value inequality for this problem is\r\n" );
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document.write( "    |x - 35| <= 0.5.    \r\n" );
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document.write( "It is the  ANSWER  to the first question. \r\n" );
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document.write( "This absolute value inequality is equivalent to this compounded inequality\r\n" );
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document.write( "    -0.5 <= x - 35 <= 0.5\r\n" );
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document.write( "Add 35 to all three terms of the inequality and get the solution\r\n" );
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document.write( "    34.5 <= x <= 35.5.\r\n" );
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document.write( "34.5 pounds and 35.5 pounds are the minimum and the maximum of the weight in a bag.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It is the  ANSWER  to the second question. \r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "            This my solution is a standard mathematical mantra
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