Question

You conduct a random survey of your small town about having a town wide garage sale. of those surveyed, 56% are in favor and 44% are opposed. the actual percent could be 5% more or 5% less than the acquired results.
a. write and solve an absolute value equation to find the least and greatest percentage of your town population that could be opposed to a town wide garage sale.

Answer 1

We are given that the percentage who are opposed to the wide garage sale is 44%.

The range of deviation is 5% more or 5% less.

Therefore if we say that x is the percentage of the people who are opposed, then:

|x – 44| = 5