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McGraw Hill Integrated II, 2012

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Exercise 21 Page 91

An absolute value is always non-negative.

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Practice makes perfect

To evaluate the given expression for c=0, we should substitute 0 for c in the given expression. Remember that the absolute value acts as a grouping symbol, so we will perform the operations inside the absolute value bars first.

|2c-3| + 1

c= 0

|2( 0)-3|+1

Zero Property of Multiplication

|-3|+1

|-3|=3

3+1

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