Abigail has a cylindrical candle mold with the dimensions shown. If Abigail has a rectangular block of wax measuring 15 cm by 12 cm by 18 cm, about how many candles can she make after melting the block of wax? Round to the nearest tenth.

Find the volume of the candle using the formula for volume of a cylinder:

V = PI x r^2 x h = 3.14 x 3.4^2 x 6 = 217.79 cubic cm. Round to 217.8

Find the volume of the block: V = l x w x h = 15 x 12 x 18 = 3,240 cubic cm.

Now divide the volume of the block by the volume of a candle:

3240 / 217.8 = 14.88

Round to the nearest tenth = 14.9 candles.

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

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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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