Question

Georgia has a budget of $8 for a new notebook. She wants to spend within $5 of her budget, so she uses the equation 5 = |8 – x| to find the maximum and minimum values. What are the solutions to the equation?

Answer 1

Answer:

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 13

Step-by-step explanation:

Georgia uses the equation

5 = |8 – x| to find the maximum and minimum values.

We solve the equation for x.

$5 = |8 - x|$

By the definition of the absolute value function, we must have:

$- 5 = 8 - x \: or \: 5 = 8 - x$

We subtract 8 from both sides to get:

$- 5 - 8 = - x \: or \: 5 - 8 = - x$

$- 13 = - x \: or \: - 3 = - x$

This simplifies to:

$13 = x \: or \: 3 = x$

Therefore the minimum value is 3 and maximum is 13