SOLUTION: What is the answers to this absolute value equation, it is asking for two answers? 2|4x-5|-2=-4 I kept trying to work out the problem but all i got was negitive numbers, and

Question 335907: What is the answers to this absolute value equation, it is asking for two answers?
2|4x-5|-2=-4
I kept trying to work out the problem but all i got was negitive numbers, and none of the answers have negitives in them.
Thanks

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2|4x-5|-2=-4
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Add 2 to both sides:
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2|4x-5| = -2
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Divide both sides by 2:
|4x-5| = -1
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There are NO answers because absolute
value cannot be negative.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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