“Math problem asks you to calculate the area of a room. The trick is you cannot use a tape measure, ruler, or any other regular measurement device. What unit can you use to measure the dimensions of this room? A shoe, a wooden spoon, a light saber, who knows? The formula for area is length times width. Is your room not a perfect square or rectangle? Adjust how you would calculate the area to accommodate for this. Remember the formula is length x width. And the unit of measure is squared.” I need help with this question. Can someone help me with this?

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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