SOLUTION: how many numbers have an absolute value of 5/4th's??? What are they? How did you get this???

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Question 913136: how many numbers have an absolute value of 5/4th's??? What are they? How did you get this???

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
5/4 and -5/4 both have the the absolute value of 5/4

ie

|5/4| = 5/4
|-5/4| = 5/4

Both numbers -5/4 and 5/4 have this same absolute value because they are both 5/4 units away from the number 0.

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