7. Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
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Can the absolute value of a number be negative?
No solution
An absolute value measures an expression's distance from a midpoint on a number line. For this exercise, we need to isolate the absolute value before we can find this distance.
Since distance cannot be negative, the absolute value of a number cannot be negative. |3t-2|= -4 An absolute value cannot be equal to -4, so this equation has no solution.