Question

A glassblower makes vases. To prevent them from breaking,each vase's thickness should be 6 millimeters and candeviate by no more than 1 millimeter.Write an inequality to represent this situation, where t is thethickness in millimeters, and solve for the maximumthickness.

Answer 1

Since each vase should be 6 millimeters and can only deviate by no more than 1 millimeter, the inequality for the thickness would be:

`6\ge t\leq7`

And the maximum thickness would be 7 millimeters.