In a literary work, what is irony?
a. an explanation of an event that took place before the story begins
b. an element in a story that evokes pity or compassion for the characters
c. the underlying reason a tragic hero causes a tragedy to happen
d. a situation in which the outcome of events contradicts what is expected

function 2 has a greater rate of change than function 1

function 2 has a greater y-intercept than function 1

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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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