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Thank you We sneak right so here's your shmoop to

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george which of the following symbols belongs in place of

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the question mark for the equation absolute value of a

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plus b blank absolute value of a plus absolute value

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of be given that a equals negative five in people

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seven And here the potential And before we spoil the

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ending hit pause it right there All right so this

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is just testing whether we understand absolute values and that

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we can be surgically careful in the numbers were plugging

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into a place The variables In this case we just

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rewrite the bass problem and we have the absolute value

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of negative five plus positive seven which is positive too

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And yet here the absolute value provides really doesn't matter

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Plug in the other side and we have the absolute

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values a or negative five which is positive Five and

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absolute value Land and envy is seven and they're total

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is twelve so we have two is less than equal

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to or greater than twelve Well who is less than

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twelve Not a toughie here So the answer is a

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done Looks like this problem is strictly out patient yeah

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