
Rule for getting rid of absolute value bars:
1. Do all operations inside until there is only one number inside
the absolute value bars.
2. If the number is positive, replace the absolute value bars by
parentheses.
3. If the number is negative, change its sign to positive and
change the absolute value bars to parentheses.
For the first term
, since -9 is negative, we change
the sign, making it
and change the absolute value bars to
parentheses:
For the second term
, since 4 is positive, we merely
change the absolute value bars to parentheses:
For the last term, first we do the subtraction and replace
by
.
For the
, since
is negative, we change the
sign, making it
and change the absolute value bars to parentheses:
Now we do the multiplication first, replace
by
Edwin