The FireBall Company manufactures ball bearings for precision equipment. One of its products is a ball bearing

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The FireBall Company manufactures ball bearings for precision equipment. One of its products is a ball bearing with a stated radius of 3 centimeters (cm). Only ball bearings with a radius within 0.01 cm of this stated radius are acceptable. If x is the radius of a ball bearing, a formula describing this situation is 

|x - 3| ≤ 0.01

(a) Is a ball bearing of radius x = 2.999acceptable?
(b) Is a ball bearing of radius x = 2.89 acceptable?

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Precalculus

ISBN: 978-0321716835

9th edition

Authors: Michael Sullivan

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