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c.
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0 2 4 6 8 10
Solve.
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a. b. c. d.
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a. b. c. d.
b.
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c.
–10 –5 0 5 10
d.
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____ 8. Ho sells ice cream cones at the county fair. She has to rent the equipment for $48 and spend $0.53 on
ingredients for each cone. Write an inequality to represent the possible numbers of ice cream cones that
she must sell at $1.40 each in order to make a profit.
a. x > 57 c. x > 58
b. x > 55 d. x > 56
____ 9. Joel sells ice cream cones at the county fair. He has to rent the equipment for $36 and spend $0.52 on
ingredients for each cone. What is the minimum number of ice cream cones Joel must sell at $1.40 each in
order to make a profit?
a. 41 b. 39 c. 42 d. 40
10. Solve Graph your solution.
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21. Maria is the hostess and manager at a restaurant. She receives a yearly salary of $18,500, plus 4% of each
day's receipts at the restaurant. Last year Maria's total pay was more than $36,000. Write and solve an
inequality to find the least possible value for the restaurant's receipts last year.
22. Use the graph of to solve the inequality Justify your answer. Use the graph of
23. Mr. and Mrs. Garcia have budgeted $2800 for airplane tickets and a hotel for a family vacation. Their two
children will come with them on the vacation.
If each round-trip airplane ticket costs $415, and the hotel costs $155 per night, how many nights can the
Garcias stay?
a. Write an inequality to represent the situation. Explain why the inequality models the problem.
b. Solve the inequality graphically.
____ 24. On a road in the city of Rochester, the maximum speed is 50 miles per hour and the minimum speed is
20 miles per hour. If x represents speed, which sentence best expresses this condition?
a. c.
b. d.
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a. –7 x –3
b. or
c.
d. or
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____ 28. Your veterinarian tells you that a healthy weight for your dog is between 70 and 80 pounds. Write an
inequality to represent your dog's healthy weight w in kilograms.
a. c.
b. d.
29. Graph the solution to the inequality "x is greater than 3 or less than or equal to 0."
30. The width, w, of a piece of wood ranges from 74 mm to 83 mm. Write and graph an inequality to describe
this interval. Does this graph represent a discrete or continuous data set?
31. The cost of a box of stationery ranges from $2.05 to $2.75. Write and graph an inequality to describe this
statement.
32. The cost of a 5-lb bag of dog food ranges from $4.65 to $5.35. Write and graph an inequality to describe
this statement.
33. Solve Graph your solution.
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48. The following table shows the range of frequencies of sound waves that various animals can hear. Hertz
(Hz) is a unit of frequency for sound waves.
Animal Frequency range (Hz)
human 64–23,000
dog 67–45,000
chicken 125–2000
beluga whale 1000–123,000
elephant 16–12,000
a. Write the frequencies a human can hear as a compound inequality. Write this inequality as a verbal
phrase.
b. What compound inequality describes the frequency range r for a chicken? Graph this inequality.
c. What compound inequality describes the frequencies that a beluga whale can hear that an elephant
cannot hear?
d. Use a compound inequality to explain why dogs can hear some whistles that humans cannot hear.
49. The graph below shows the solution set of a certain inequality. State one solution represented by the
graph.
Solve.
____ 51.
a. The solutions are 5 and –13. c. The solutions are 13 and –5.
b. The solution is –5. d. The solution is –13.
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a. 1 5 b. 1 5 c. 1 3 d. 3
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4 4 4 4 4 4 4
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59. Over the course of 5 games, a football team scores an average of 14 points with an absolute deviation of 4
points. What were the football team's least and greatest scores?
61. A machine that fills boxes of raisins is to fill the boxes with 16 oz of raisins. The box itself weighs 1.4 oz.
Each box is weighed, and if the weight differs from the acceptable total of raisins and the box by more
than 0.2 oz, the box is rejected.
a. What equation can be used to find the acceptable maximum and minimum weights? What are these
weights?
b. Suppose one box of raisins weighs 17.6 oz and another weighs 17.1 oz. For which box is the absolute
deviation of the measured weight from the acceptable weight greater? Explain.
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10 10
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6 6
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a. x –6 or x 0
b. –6 < x < 0
c. x < –6 or x > 0
d. –6 x 0
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80. The middleweight division in a sport is centered at 160 pounds. Deviation from that must be less than 3
pounds either way. What are the possible weights in the sport?
81. Machine parts must be specific sizes so that they fit perfectly within the machine. A certain machine part
has a diameter of 14.53 cm with an absolute deviation of at most 0.12 cm.
a. Write an absolute value inequality that can be solved to find the least and greatest acceptable diameters
of a machine part. Then find the least and greatest acceptable diameters.
b. A machine part like the one described has a diameter of 14.67 centimeters. By how many centimeters
does this part's diameter exceed the greatest acceptable diameter? Explain.
Graph.
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a. y c. y
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–10 –10
b. y d. y
10 10
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____ 83.
a. y c. y
10 10
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b. y d. y
10 10
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____ 84.
a. y c. y
10 10
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–10 –10
b. y d. y
10 10
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–10 –10
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a. y c. y
10 10
–10 10 x –10 10 x
–10 –10
b. y d. y
10 10
–10 10 x –10 10 x
–10 –10
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a. c.
b. d.
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____ 92. An electronics store makes a profit of $61 for every standard CD player sold and $66 for every portable
CD player sold. The manager's target is to make at least $405 a day on sales from standard and portable
CD players. Write an inequality that represents the numbers of both kinds of CD players that can be sold
to reach or beat the sales target. Let s represent the number of standard CD players sold and p represent
the number of portable CD players sold. Then graph the inequality.
a. c.
6 6
5 5
Portable
Portable
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Standard Standard
b. d.
6 6
5 5
Portable
Portable
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Standard Standard
94. Is the ordered pair (2, –4) a solution for the inequality ?
96. Graph
97. Graph