Problema Solution

A box of cereal should have a mass of 397 grams. The quality control inspector measures the mass of every fiftieth box. The inspector rejects any box that is not within 10 grams of the ideal mass. Find the range of acceptable masses by writing and solving an absolute value inequality for this solution.

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Let x represent the mass of the box of cereal


|x - 397|<=10

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387 <= x <= 407


The range of acceptable masses is [387, 407].