SOLUTION: Our teacher asked us to find an example of why this expression is false, the absolute value of a over b is equal to a over b. Please help me!

SOLUTION: Our teacher asked us to find an example of why this expression is false, the absolute value of a over b is equal to a over b. Please help me!

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Question 159841: Our teacher asked us to find an example of why this expression is false, the absolute value of a over b is equal to a over b. Please help me!
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let a = -5 and b=1.
Then

while

Clearly in this case
does not equal
.
.
.
.
The reason is that the absolute value function has two values,
when
when
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