Mortgage loan of $38,600.00. Interest rate is 5.5 percent.
Monthly payment is $265.57.
a. How much of the first monthly payment is for interest?
b. How much of the first payment is for principal?
c. What is the new principal?

a.40,723

5.5% of 38600 is 2123

38600+2123=40723

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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