SOLUTION: Please help with this problem: |11x - 17| > or equal to 21

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Question 92019: Please help with this problem:
|11x - 17| > or equal to 21
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Please help with this problem:
|11x - 17| > or equal to 21
remove absolute value bars
11x - 17 >=21 solve it: 11x >= 38, so x+%3E=+38%2F11
or 11x - 17 <= -21
solve this inequality: 11x <= -4 so +x+%3C=+-4%2F11
so the answer is
x >= 38/11 or x<= 14/11