<span>The acceptable weight would be 22.7 grams. Hope this helps :)</span>
Because taking an absolute value of a number means making positive, then we can conclude that the absolute value of both numbers are 8.
|-8| = 8
|8| = 8
This reduced fraction would be c. x+y/8.
You can apply the Difference of Two Squares Formula (x^2+y^2)=(x+y)(x-y). Then, you can factor out the common term 8 and cancel out the common factor x-y. Hope this helps! :)