Can someone help me understand this?

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Step-by-step explanation:

OK so if a figure is a dilation of another figure that means that is has the same angles but the sides are going to be smaller or bigger. Even though the sides are a different size they are proportional. So if I divided the length of AB over XY I'd get 5 since that is the scale factor. If I did that with AC over XZ I'd get 5 again because that is the scale factor. That's because they were proportional. Let's say this wasn't a dilation and AB over XY was 5 but AC over XZ was 4 that would mean it isn't proportional because AB would be 5 times bigger but XZ is only 4 times bigger.

these sign is used to tell weather the number is greater or less than the number   <   or >     but this sign means its equal =    

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step-by-step explanation:

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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