Question

The average distance is 92,950,000 miles between earth and sun but the distance can vary 1,550,000 miles from the average. find an absolute value equation that models the situation and has a minimum and maximum distance between the earth and sun as solutions

Answer 1

|x -92,950,000| = 1,550,000

Explanation:

The positive difference (x) from average will be ...

|x -92,950,000|

We want that to be 1,550,000 so that the only solutions to the equation are the minimum and maximum values of distance.

|x -92,950,000| = 1,550,000 . . . . . where x is earth-sun distance