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To win a contest, the number of beans in a jar has to be guessed within 20 of the actual number. If the number of beans in the jar is 645, which equation can be used to find the minimum and maximum number of beans that will win the contest, and what is the maximum guess that could win?

|x – 645| = 20; maximum guess: 635 beans
|x – 645| = 20; maximum guess: 665 beans
|x – 20| = 645; maximum guess: 635 beans
|x – 20| = 645; maximum guess: 665 beans

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Equation: |x − 645| = 20.

Solve: x − 645 = ±20 → x = 645 ± 20 → x = 625 or x = 665.

Maximum winning guess: 665 beans.