I have no idea about how to solve this, and am wondering if someone can explain how to get to the answer the WolframAlpha (and my book) have gotten.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

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I have no idea about how to solve this, and am wondering if someone can explain how to get to the answer the WolframAlpha (and my book) have gotten. 

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

amonoconnor · Answer

The problem:

jhannybean · Answer

How does one integrate $\int |x| dx$

anonymous · Answer

i hope this will help

amonoconnor · Answer

Yes, that helps a lot... so basically, taking away the boundaries crossing 0 in a single integral makes the absolute value be negated?

anonymous · Answer

yeah

amonoconnor · Answer

Wonderful!!! Thank you all for being such great OS'ers!! :D

amonoconnor · Answer

**I'm going to try and work this one through now...

amonoconnor · Answer

Got it!! :)