The picture shows a composite shape. we don’t have a formula for finding the area of a shape like this, but we can break it into familiar shapes that we do have formulas for!

(a) draw lines on the drawing to divide the shape into familiar parallelograms and
triangles.

(b) find the area of each individual shape. show your work!

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.

step-by-step explanation:

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