SOLUTION: the equation |x| = -a where A is a positive interger, what can be said about the solution? how would you modify the value of A so that you would have a solution to |x| = -a of +- a

Question 211557: the equation |x| = -a where A is a positive interger, what can be said about the solution? how would you modify the value of A so that you would have a solution to |x| = -a of +- a?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is no solution to where since is ALWAYS nonnegative (ie not negative).

In order to make have the solutions of or , you need to force 'a' to be negative. So has the solutions of or when .

Ex: has the solutions and . If you plug in either solution, you get

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