Valeriya wants to determine the likely voting outcome for the new town council election. which sample is likely to yield the most biased results?
a. every tenth person working for the largest corporation in town.
b. ten people chosen at random from each page of the town’s phone list.
c. every tenth person walking down main street in town on a variety of days and times of the day.
d. ten eligible voters chosen at random from each of the different neighborhoods in town

A. every tenth person working for the largest corporation in town

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.

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