SOLUTION: I need help on this absolute value question solving for Y: 5*absolute value of y+9 =15 sorry I dindt know how to type in absolute value signs..

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Question 157589: I need help on this absolute value question solving for Y:
5*absolute value of y+9 =15

sorry I dindt know how to type in absolute value signs..

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First simplify, till only absolute value argument is on one side, everything else is on the other.

Divide both sides by 5.
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Absolute value problems are really two problems in one:positive solution and negative solution.
Let's do positive solution first.


Now the negative solution,




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The solutions are y=-6 and y=-12.

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