Let the wire left be x yards.
Therefore, the answer of your question will be x yards.
Answer = x yards
The values that make this statement falser are any in which a and b do not have the same sign.
For instance, if a was equal to 3 and b was equal to -3 than see the results.
|a+b|=
|3+-3|=
|0|= 0
Then see the next equation with the same selections
|a|+|b|
|3|+|-3|
3 + 3 = 6
And this would be true no matter which is the negative, as long as there is one negative and one positive.
The milk is the dependent variable
The base is 30.
Hopefully I got this correct, not 100%