A nutritionist recommends that an adult male consumes 55 grams of fat per day. It is acceptable for the fat intake to differ from this amount by at most 25 grams. What absolute-value inequality represents the acceptable range of fat intake?
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May 22, 2015
Let "x" be the intake of fat of a given person in one day expressed in grams.
Then, according to the enuntiate, "x" will be aceptable if: