SOLUTION: |3a+9| = |3a-5|. What is the answer?

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Question 820480: |3a+9| = |3a-5|. What is the answer?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20059)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
|3a+9| = |3a-5|

Break that into two equations:

3a+9 = 3a-5   OR   3a+9 = -(3a-5)
   9 = -5          3a+9 = -3a+5
No solution          6a = -4
to this part          a = 
                      a = 

There is one solution, a = 

Edwin
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