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Hello, everybody, welcome.
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Today we are going to be solving an absolute value equation.
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So the equation that we're given is three times the absolute value of x plus 5 is a plus 6 is equal to 15.
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So before we start jumping into the absolute value function part of this, we want to isolate the variable, or in this case, we want to isolate the absolute value function.
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So, but we can do this like any other algebraic equation.
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We're going to subtract 6 from both sides.
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And so we get three times the absolute value of x plus 5 is equal to 15 minus 6, which is 9.
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Then we're going to divide both sides by 3 as well.
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So we get x plus 5 is equal to 9 divided by 3, which is just 3...