You can divide 22 into 10 (not 10 into 22) and getwhich reduces to . Realize that not all problems come out with whole numbers. In fact, real life problems seldom do. In school when you get math problems that come out whole numbers, they're just planned that way to make it easier for you. But you have to get some problems that come out with fraction or decimal answers |22z - 9| = 1 That breaks into two equations: 22z - 9 = 1 and 22z - 9 = -1 22z = 10 22z = 8 z = z = z = z = There are two solutions and the solution set is { , } ` Edwin