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All right, so here we have a very complex absolute value that's related to negative 1, or positive 1.
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And so we have isolated this, so that's nice.
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Once we've isolated the absolute value, we can set it equal to two possibilities.
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So we're going to take the inside out, and we're going to set this equal to two possibilities.
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The first possibility is that 2x plus 3, all over 3, minus 1⁄2 is, okay, is in fact less than 1.
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That's what you see is what you get.
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The other possibility is that 2x plus 3 over 3 minus 1 half is not less than 1, but the opposite of that.
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So greater than the opposite of 1, negative 1.
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So here are your two possibilities.
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Now when we solve this, there's a couple easy ways to do it.
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I think the easiest way to do it is to multiply the entire equation by 6.
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So you multiply the entire equation by 6 because that is a multiple.
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Both three and two.
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And we'll give you an integer coefficients and make it a little simple by getting rid of the fraction.
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So three goes into six two times.
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So we get two times the quantity of two x plus three.
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And then two goes into six three times.
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So you get three times negative one, which is negative three is less than six times one, which is six.
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Over on this side, you get three goes into six, two, two times the quantity of two x plus 3 2 goes into 6 3 so that's negative 3 and then greater than negative 6 okay now that we rewritten this we can solve it i would distribute and then combine like terms so let's distribute first so you get 2 times 2 x is 4x 2 times 3 is 6 so you get 4x plus 6 minus 3 is less than 6 now we're here we get that same 4x plus 6 minus 3 but the time it's greater than negative 6.
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Okay, now you're going to combine your like terms.
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So combining our like terms, we can see that, let's do this in a different color, let's do orange or something.
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We can see that this is 4x and 6 minus 3 is 3.
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So that 4x plus 3 is less than 6.
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So over here we get the same thing.
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You get 4x plus 3 is great.
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Than negative 6.
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Okay.
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Now you want to get the 4x by themselves.
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So how would you undo or get rid of let's do some light blue? positive 3.
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You're going to minus 3 to both sides.
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You're going to get 4x is less than 3.
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Now here you're going to take away 3 from both sides.
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And you're going to get 4x is greater than negative 9.
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And then finally to finish up, you're going to divide everything by 4...