Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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Exercise 1 Page 98

The expected attendance at a school event is people. We are told that the actual attendance can vary by up to people. This means that the actual attendance can be people more than expected, or people less than expected.
We can subtract in both sides of these equations in order to write them as an absolute value equation.
Therefore, the answer is A.