SOLUTION: Explain why the following expression is false: |x| < -4

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Question 975779: Explain why the following expression is false: |x| < -4
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Absolute value functions never yield a negative value so your function could never be less than -4.
Not that it's necessarily false but there are no values of x that satisfy this equation.