<PRE><B>Question 990692</B>
 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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