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Hello, i'm going to show you the fundamentals of solving a basic absolute value equation.
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The first thing we're going to do is to isolate the equation.
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That's already been done for us.
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Now, the next step is to be able to create multiple possibilities.
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Now, a is within the absolute value, so whatever that is, is going to be positive.
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But the a itself can be positive or negative.
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But we don't know that just yet.
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So we create our possibilities.
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The next step is to solve.
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It's pretty much done for you.
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So from this, you can continue on and do other equations similar to this.
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Now, i'm going to show you an example of an absolute value equation where we pretty much isolate possibilities, solve, and check and plug.
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This one is a little bit more complex than the first one that we saw...