SOLUTION: can you please explain the steps solve the equation |2x+1|=2.8 these / in the equation are suppose to be straight up and down i just dont have straight up and down on my keyb

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Question 358589: can you please explain the steps
solve the equation |2x+1|=2.8
these / in the equation are suppose to be straight up and down i just dont have straight up and down on my keyboard
thank you
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's an absolute value function and has two solutions: positive and negative.
Solve for both solutions.

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Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The | is the shifted backslash key \ right above the Enter key.

|2x+1| = 2.8

What's between the absolute value bars can be +2.8 or -2.8 because the
absolute value bars will make it positive if it's negative.  So therefore
we have two equations and unually two solutions:

2x+1 = 2.8  is one equation and 2x+1 = -2.8 is the other:

Solve these two equations and you will have the two solutions

 and 

Edwin
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