Question

|a+8|=15

Answer 1

Okay. Do you know what absolute value is?

Answer 2

Absolute value is how many steps a number is from 0 in the number line.

Answer 3

if u remove the mod u get two values -ve as well as +ve

Answer 4

For example |-15| = 15 and |15| = 15, so based on what I said what do you think you have to add to 8 to get 15 in that ||?

Answer 5

Or you can do 15 - 8 = a. What is a?

Answer 6

a+8= +- 15
a= 7,-23