SOLUTION: How do you show your work to prove that there is no solution to an absolute value question with a negative number on the right side of the equal sign?

SOLUTION: How do you show your work to prove that there is no solution to an absolute value question with a negative number on the right side of the equal sign?

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Question 530036: How do you show your work to prove that there is no solution to an absolute value question with a negative number on the right side of the equal sign?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the absolute value of any number is positive or zero (ie not negative), this means that there are no solutions to something like
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