SOLUTION: |7-1/2x|=-3 how do you solve this absolute value?
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Question 35353: |7-1/2x|=-3 how do you solve this absolute value?
Answer by Cintchr(481) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
|7-1/2x|=-3
When doing an absolute value, you have to do the positive and the negative
+
and
-
Lets deal with the positive one first
subtract 7
multiply by -2
Now the negative
Distribute the neagative
subtract 7
multiply by 2
x = { -20, 20 }
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