Last month, a truck driver made 5 round-trips to Los Angeles and some round-trips to San Diego.
Write an expression that shows how many miles he drove in all.
Identify and describe the part of the expression that shows how
many miles he drove and trips he made to San Diego.

Example

You could represent a round trip to Los Angeles with the variable: x

You could represent the number of miles in a round trip to Los Angeles with the variable: a

You could represent a round trip to San Diego with the variable: y

You could represent the number of miles in a round trip to San Diego with the variable: b

your equation would be: xa + yb

Factoring in what we know, the example equation would be:

5a + yb

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

step-by-step explanation:      

let x be the possible lengths in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

we have been given that jaime is cutting strips of ribbon for a project. he tries to cut each piece to be 12 inches long, but sometimes he cuts it too long or too short by as much as 0.25 inch.  

we can represent this information in an inequality as:

by the definition of absolute value function we will get,

upon combining our inequalities we will get,

therefore, the inequality   describes all the possible lengths (x), in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

step-by-step explanation:

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