SOLUTION: i am trying to find out how to drop the absolute valu on the following problem
i dont now how to type the problem so i am just going to talk it out character by charcter.
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Question 200608: i am trying to find out how to drop the absolute valu on the following problem
i dont now how to type the problem so i am just going to talk it out character by charcter.
negative, start absolute value, five, negative, square root two, end absolute value Found 2 solutions by solver91311, RAY100:Answer by solver91311(16868) (Show Source):
Shift backslash (the key above the Enter key on standard keyboards) makes the absolute value bar, sqrt(2) is the correct rendering of square root two, so you should have posted this as: |5-sqrt(2)|.
Remember the definition of absolute value:
Since , . Therefore, by the definition of absolute value:
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