Saturday, April 20, 2013

Simplify absolute value expression


 If x <2, simplify

|x - 2| - 4|-6|

Solution:

x<2 means that we are looking at the negative case for the expression |x - 2| and so we can write:
x - 2| - 4|-6| = -(x - 2) -4(6) = -x -22

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