PLEASE HELP A taxi charges $4.00 for the first mile plus $1.25 for each additional mile.
On a fare of $16.50, how long was the ride?

The fare ride was 11 miles.

Step-by-step explanation:

So it says that for the first mile the taxi charged $4.00 okay? so then it says for each additional mile he charges $1.25 so what i did was add the $4.00 and then kept on adding $1.25. so $4.00 plus $1.25 equals $5.25 so continue adding $1.25 till you get to exactly $16.50.. Count up exactly how many           "$1.25's" it took to get to $16.50 so it would be exactly 10 times you had to add $1.25 to it and we cant forget the first mile which was $4.00 so thats an additional mile so then it would 11 miles !

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: