|
|
 |
 |
|
|
||
 |
ABSOLUTE VALUE EQUATIONS |
||||||||
| An
absolute value
equation is a statement that contains an absolute value. The variable of
the equation is contained within the absolute value.
|
|||||||||
| Definition | |||||||||
| Examples |
EXAMPLES OF ABSOLUTE VALUE EQUATIONS |
||||||||
|
|
Example 1 |
Example 2 |
|
|
|||||
|
|
 |
|
|||||||
| Solving |
STEPS TO SOLVE A absolute value EQUATION |
||||||||
|
Recall that absolute value means distance from zero. The equation |x|=5 has two solutions. The statement asks for the values of x that are five units from zero. Both 5 and -5 are five units from zero. Therefore, x = 5 or x = -5.
|
|||||||||
|
Sample Problems |
Sample Problem 1 |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Sample Problems |
Sample Problem 2 |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
