SOLUTION: To drive safely along a road, drivers need to maintain a speed of at least 50 miles per hour and at most 60 miles per hour. Write an absolute value equation that represents the min

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Question 1008325: To drive safely along a road, drivers need to maintain a speed of at least 50 miles per hour and at most 60 miles per hour. Write an absolute value equation that represents the minimum and maximum speeds.
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call x the speed...then we have
|x - 55| <= 5
which yields
x <= 60 and x >= 50