Question

10. At a certain company, the average starting salary s for a new worker is $25,000. The actual

salary has an absolute deviation of at most $1800. Write and solve an inequality to find the
range of the starting salaries.
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Answer 1

Explanation:

Let 'x' represent the actual salary.

|x - 25,000| <= 1800

- 1,800 <= x - 25,000 <= 1,800

25,000 - 1,800 <= x <= 25,000 + 1,800

23,200 <= x <= 26,800

The range of the salary is the closed interval [23,200, 26,800].