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In order to ensure compliance with the law, Miguel routinely overshoots the weight of his tortillas by 0.5 gram. He just
received a report that told him that he could be losing as much as $100,000 per year using this practice. He now plans to
buy new equipment that guarantees the thickness of a tortilla within 0.005 inch. If the ideal thickness of a tortilla is 0.04
Inch, what tortilla thickness will be guaranteed?
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