SOLUTION: What does the sign |x| means? What is the answer of x if it is |x-4|>3?

Question 465561: What does the sign |x| means? What is the answer of x if it is |x-4|>3?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's called "absolute value".
It means that whatever is inside
the bars, you ignore the minus if it
has a minus sign. Therefore:

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You have:

Try , then

not true
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If ,

true
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Try

also not true
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But if ,

true
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If , then

true
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What it boils down to is,
there are 2 ranges for
that make the inequality true:

and

Anything between and including
and fails
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Hope this helps

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