Question 211439
"what happens to the absolute value of an expression if you take the opposite of the expression before taking the absolute value?"
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nothing.
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let the expression be 5
|5| = 5
|-5| = 5
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if the expression is positive, the absolute value of the expression is equal to the expression.
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if the expression is negative, the absolute value of the expression is equal to the expression multiplied by -1.
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negative or a negative is positive.
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