Question

ALgebra help

Answer 1

What do the absolute value sticks do? They tell you how many units a number is from zero. It makes no difference if the units are to the left or the right of zero. So, \[\left| x \right|=3\] will have 2 answers. What numbers can you stick in for x that will be 3 units from zero?

Answer 2

3 ?

Answer 3

yes, and... ? :)

Answer 4

6?

Answer 5

No. That would be 6 units from zero. Look at a number line.