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Question 145708: |3x+2|-2=4x+1
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Question 146264: Solve for x:

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Question 146264: Solve for x:

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Question 146264: Solve for x:

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Question 146591: How do you solve 10 - |x + 2| = 12? whats the answer?
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Question 146594: How do you solve 10 - |x + 2| = 12? whats the answer?
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Question 146592: How do you solve 10 - |x + 2| = 12? whats the answer?
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Question 146589: How do you solve 10 - |x + 2| = 12? whats the answer?
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Question 146590: How do you solve 10 - |x + 2| = 12? whats the answer?
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Question 146598: How do you solve |2x + 6| - 4 = 20, whats the answer?
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Question 146698: 1. List the conditions when the sum of a positive number and several negative numbers will be positive
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Question 146868: Whats the answer to |2x + 6| - 4 = 20?
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Question 146867: How do you solve - 5| x + 1| = -10, whats the answer?
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Question 146866: How do you solve |3x + 2| = 14, whats the answer?
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Question 146865: How do you solve |3x + 2| = 14, whats the answer?
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Question 147034: Hi, can you please help me solve this problem.
sketch the graph of: y= /x-2/ -2
the backslashes represent the absolute lines.
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Question 147065: Hello,
I need help with this Algebra problem please.
|9x|-3>6
What I know so far:
First you add 3 to each side; then you have: |9x|>6
Then you divide each side by 9
Then I get confused .
Then the answer choices are
A) x>1 or <-(1/3)
B) x<-1 or x>1
C) x<1 and x<-1
Can you please explain the answer too.
Thankyou,
Alexia

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Question 147323: Hi I need help with this
6 - 3|2x + 6| = 0
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Question 147322: Hi im having problems on this absolute value problems
|x - 2| + 10 = 12

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Question 147379: I'm attempting to help my child with an absolute value problem that she cannot solve and it has been a long time since I have had Algebra. Help please! Please show work with explanation and then I will work it through with her not providing the answer directly. Thanks!
Find the absolute value inequality for the following:
x < 6 or x > 11
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Question 147402: I tried to submit this earlier but it does not seem to have gone through. Please help a Mom with another absolute value question. Please provide solution with explanation so that I can help my child.
Find the absolute value inequality:
[2, 10]
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Question 147423: evaluate the numerical expression
1) 5[(12)+60]/10
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Question 147446: 1. |x | = 6

2. |3x + 2| = 14

3. - 5| x + 1| = -10

4. |x - 2| + 10 = 12

5. |x| = - 5

6. |2x + 6| - 4 = 20

7. 6 - 3|2x + 6| = 0

8. 10 - |x + 2| = 12

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Question 147613: x+3<8-x
-8
x+3-8<-x
x+5<-x
5x<-x
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Question 147613: x+3<8-x
-8
x+3-8<-x
x+5<-x
5x<-x
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Question 147657: If y varies directly as x, and y = 16 when x = 20.
Find y when x = 5.
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Question 147656: A Go-ped traveled 9 miles in 24 minutes.
How long would it take to go 27 miles?
Thanks
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Question 147656: A Go-ped traveled 9 miles in 24 minutes.
How long would it take to go 27 miles?
Thanks
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Question 147800: Solve for x.
| 2x - 5 | + 6 = 12
need answer please :)
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Question 147799: If you weigh 200 lb force and have a mass of 5 lb mass, how much does your little sister weigh if she has a mass of 2.25 lb mass?
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Question 147798: Hi I need the steps and answer confused a bit
Solve for x.
x - (2x - 6) = 3x - 2(x + 5)

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Question 147985: Five times the first of three consecutive even integers is fourteen more than three times the second. What is the third consecutive integer?
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Question 147987: Bob paid $3 less than Tim at a local pizza parlor. Together they spent $7.80. How much did Bob spend at the local pizza parlor?
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Question 147988: The sum of three consecutive even integers is fifty-four. The sum of the first two consecutive integers is 34. What is the first consecutive integer?
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Question 147990:
An airplane flies at a rate of 356 km/h . If the plane travels a total distance of 1424 km, how long was it in the air?
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Question 148062: I need the steps and answer to this :)
|x - 2| + 3 = 10
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Question 148063: |x + 4| = 7
help please :)
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Question 148064: Find the solution to the equation |x| = 3.
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Question 148066: I need this solved using a proportion
A truck can pump 800 gallons of oil in 35 minutes. How much oil can it pump in 2 hours?
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Question 148065: need this solved in a proportion
Katherine drove 100 miles on 7 gallons of gasoline. How far can she drive on a full tank of 20 gallons?
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Question 148068: Which set of ordered pairs is a function?
(2,3),(-4,5),(2,7),(7,-2)
(2,3),(-4,5),(-2,7),(-4,-2)
(2,3),(-4,5),(-2,7),(7,7)
(2,3),(-4,5),(2,-7),(7,-2)

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Question 148110: graph each compound or absolute value inequality
x+8y>8 and x-2y<10
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Question 148797: 5.)Solve -0.2x is less than -10
The solution is {x l ___}

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Question 149796: -/-6/-/2/
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