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document.write( "Is all that dirty, scary absolute value||means,is how many digits away from 0 is -5. So on the number line we start at zero and count to -5. How many times did you count? It should have been 5.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so |-5|=5 \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Don't let those signs||scare you.<BR>\n" );
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