SOLUTION: |2x - 6| = 11. How is the solution x -5/2 or 17/2?

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Question 490353: |2x - 6| = 11.
How is the solution x -5/2 or 17/2?

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I can see how the solution is or
Whatever is inside the absolute value sign, it must equal
or , since
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so,


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