SOLUTION: Can you please help me explain this I would appreciate it. With absolute value within an inequality sometimes the solution is one interval and sometimes it is two intervals. Why

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Question 932234: Can you please help me explain this I would appreciate it.
With absolute value within an inequality sometimes the solution is one interval and sometimes it is two intervals. Why is this and how can you tell which case to use?

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

go to
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/absineq.htm
read careful and you will find an answer to your question

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