Problema Solution
The buyers expect that the cost of the cottage will be about
$125,000. They are able to deviate from this cost by no more
than $12,500. Write and solve an absolute value inequality to
find the range of costs. Explain your answer
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Let 'x' represent the cost.
|125,000 - x| <= 12,500
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112,500 <= x <= 137,500
The range of the cost is between $112,500 and $137,500 or the closed interval [112500, 137500].