SOLUTION: How do I solve for the absolute value inequality: x

SOLUTION: How do I solve for the absolute value inequality: x > 6

Question 130973: How do I solve for the absolute value inequality:
x > 6
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Does your problem look like this: ???

Start with the given inequality

Break up the absolute value (remember, if you have , then or )

or Break up the absolute value inequality using the given rule

So our solution is simply

or

which looks like this in interval notation

if you wanted to graph the solution set, you would get

Graph of the solution set in blue and the excluded values represented by open circles
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