SOLUTION: Find the two numbers that have a distance 3 from -1 by a)measuring the distance on the real number line b) solving an appropriate equation involving an absolute value

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Question 990692: Find the two numbers that have a distance 3 from -1 by
a)measuring the distance on the real number line
b) solving an appropriate equation involving an absolute value
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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Find the two numbers that have a distance 3 from -1 by
a)measuring the distance on the real number line
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-1-3 = -4 and -1+3 = 2
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b) solving an appropriate equation involving an absolute value
|x - (-1)| = 3
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x+1 = 3 or x+1 = -3
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x = 2 or x = -4
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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