McGraw Hill Glencoe Algebra 2, 2012
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Exercise 17 Page 53

Can the absolute value of a number be negative?

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An absolute value measures an expression's distance from a midpoint on a number line. Since distance cannot be negative, the absolute value of a number cannot be negative. | 3a+2|= - 4 An absolute value cannot be equal to -4, so this equation has no solution. Let's graph this.