SOLUTION: |2y| = |3y+2| + 1 Hi. I'm still stuck on this problem from last week. Can you walk me through it step by step? I get this far: 2y = 3y+2+1 or 2y = -3y-2+1 -y = 3 o

Question 704477: |2y| = |3y+2| + 1
Hi. I'm still stuck on this problem from last week. Can you walk me through it step by step? I get this far:
2y = 3y+2+1 or 2y = -3y-2+1
-y = 3 or 5y = -1
y = -3 or y = -1/5
Neither of these solutions work.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Answer by lwsshak3(11628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Absolute value problems sometimes have no solution because the solutions do not check like those of the given problem. I get the same answers you got: y = -3 or y = -1/5 , but they do not check when plugged back into the equation:|2y| = |3y+2| + 1.
|2*-3| = |3*-3+2| + 1
|-6|=|-9+2|+1
|-6|=|-7|+1
6≠7+1

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