Question

Jamaal is allowed to walk no farther than three blocks in either direction from his house. If his house is located on the 57th block of the town, which absolute value equation can be used to determine the farthest block to which Jamaal is allowed to walk?
|x – 57| = 0
|57 – 3| = x
|3 – 57| = x
|x – 57| = 3

Answer 1

Answer:

54 ans

Step-by-step explanation:

let we take no. of blocks left be [ x ]

[57 -- 3] = x

x = 54

Answer 2

Jamaal's house is located on the 57th block of the town.

Jamaal is allowed to walk no farther than three blocks in either direction from his house.

Let x be the block Jamaal walks to.  

To find the distance between his house and the block he walks to, we need to do the subtraction and is given by,

x - 57 = 3

As Jamaal can walk in either direction from his house, implies that he might take a right of the left route. So, we use the absolute value, as the absolute value represents the distance regardless of sign.

Therefore, we have,

|x - 57| = 3.