Mega mart collect a sales tax equal to 1/16 of the retail price of each purchase the tax is sent to the state government is the amount of tax collected proportional to the cost of an item before tax is added

5 Minute Check Complete in your notes. MegaMart collects a sakes tax equal to 1/16 of the retail price of each purchase. The tax is sent to the government. 1. Is the amount of tax collected proportional to the cost of an item before the tax is collected

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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