When Spheres-R-Us ships bags of golf balls, the number of balls in each bag must be within 6 balls of 300. Write a compound inequality and an absolute value inequality for an acceptable number of golf balls b in each bag.

Verified Answer :

The number of golf balls must be between 294 and 306.
  A compound inequality:
  294 ≤ x ≤ 306
  As an absolute value inequality: 
  | x - 300 | ≤ 6.