SOLUTION: Please help me to answer this question. Solve {{{(x)abs(5x-1) = (2x-4)}}}

SOLUTION: Please help me to answer this question. Solve {{{(x)abs(5x-1) = (2x-4)}}}

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Question 1049350: Please help me to answer this question. Solve
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the definition of the absolute value function to break up the function into two functions.
1. when
2. when
So then,
Using eq. 1,

No real solutions.
Using eq. 2,

Two solutions:

and

However we have to check our original condition,

So then only would be a solution.

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