Question

Sharon’s turtle escaped from her backyard sometime in the last few hours. According to her calculations, the farthest the turtle could have gone is 4 blocks down the road in either direction. If Sharon lives on the 112th block of town, which equation can be used to find the block numbers that represent the farthest distance that the turtle may be?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

|x - a| = b
for x that is b units away from a. (basically, "the absolute difference between x and a must be equal to b units"). The absolute value sign allows the distance to be in either the left or right direction.

the situation presented in this problem: distance (x) that is 4 units away from 112
try to see if you can apply the logic from the generic equation to this problem

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