When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, the number of balls in each bag must be within 6 balls of 300. Write a compound inequality and an absolute value inequality for an acceptable number of golf balls b in each bag.

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anonymous · Answer

if you call the number of balls $b$ you know $b$ has to be between $294$ and $306$

anonymous · Answer

you can write that as 
$$294<x<306$$ if you like
as an absolute value, saying that the distance between $x$ and $6$  is the same as saying 

$|x-300|\leq 6$

anonymous · Answer

I got it! Thanks!

anonymous · Answer

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