A company requires 220 pounds of plastic to meet the production needs of a product. It currently has 25 pounds of plastic inventory. The desired ending inventory of plastic is 70 pounds. How many pounds of plastic should be budgeted for purchasing during the coming period

They need 220 and want 70 for inventory for a total of 290 pounds.

They have 25, so they need: 290-25 = 265 pounds.

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

step-by-step explanation:      

let x be the possible lengths in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

we have been given that jaime is cutting strips of ribbon for a project. he tries to cut each piece to be 12 inches long, but sometimes he cuts it too long or too short by as much as 0.25 inch.  

we can represent this information in an inequality as:

by the definition of absolute value function we will get,

upon combining our inequalities we will get,

therefore, the inequality   describes all the possible lengths (x), in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

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