document.write( "Question 710771: How do you determine if an absolute value inequality's solution is all real numbers? Example: |2x-5| is greater than-3 and |2x-5| is less than -3
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document.write( "The other tutor apparently thought the second one was \r\n" );
document.write( "greater, but it was less\r\n" );
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document.write( "|2x-5| < -3\r\n" );
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document.write( "Absolute values are always either positive or 0.\r\n" );
document.write( "So it would be impossible for |2x-5| to be less than\r\n" );
document.write( "-3, for to do so, it would have to be negative, and \r\n" );
document.write( "it is impossible for an absolute value to be negative.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So that one would have no solutions.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin
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