Question

Sam is using an industrial kitchen to make several batches of his famous chocolate chip granola bars. He needs to weight out 78 ounces of chocolate chips, plus or minus 2.5 ounces. which equation can be used to find the minimum or maximum amount,c, of chocolate chips that he can weigh out?

Answer 1

Sam is using an industrial kitchen to make several batches of his famous chocolate chip granola bars. He needs to weight out 78 ounces of chocolate chips, plus or minus 2.5 ounces. The equation that can be used to find the minimum or maximum amount,c, of chocolate chips that he can weigh out is-

Absolute value equation is = |c-2.5| = 78