Please help me with this math problem.
Thank you in advance.
If manufactured correctly, a basketball should bounce from 48 inches to 56 inches when dropped from a height of 6 feet. Determine the tolerance for the bounce height of a basketball and write an absolute value inequality for acceptable bounce heights.
2007-07-02 08:50:58 · 1 answers · asked by decaelegant 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
I realized that the title is wrong.
It should have been "Absolute value inequality" instead.
2007-07-02 08:51:38 · update #1
48 <= h <= 56
Take the average of those numbers:
(48+56)/2 = 104/2 = 52
The tolerance is the distance of the two endpoints from the average value:
52 +/- 4 inches
(52 + 4 = 56, 52 - 4 = 48)
I presume you want it in this format with absolute value:
| h - 52 | <= 4
2007-07-02 08:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by McFate 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋