The population of a village increased by 240% over the last five years. Of that increase, about 25% of the people are in the entertainment business. The village had 100 people five years ago. Is it reasonable to say that the town now has 60 new people in the entertainment business?

cut 138 centimeters off

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250-112 = 138

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

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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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