SOLUTION: Question: When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, each bag must be within 6 balls of 360. Write an inequality for an acceptable number of golf balls in each bag. Which one

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Question 553794: Question: When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, each bag must be within 6 balls of 360. Write an inequality for an acceptable number of golf balls in each bag.

Which one of these answers is correct? 354<= x<= 366
or absolute value of b-360<= 6

Answer by Earlsdon(6294) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Actually, both are correct:
Why? because:
abs%28b-360%29+%3C=+6 Where b is the number of golf balls. Solve this for b.
b-360++%3C=+6 or b-360+%3E=+-6
b+%3C=+366 or b+%3E=+354 which can be written as:
354+%3C=+b+%3C=+366 which is identical to:
354+%3C=+x+%3C=+366 if you replace b with x.