To be able to find the absolute value of a number, you're being asked to find how far away a given number is from the origin (zero) on a number line. If the number is positive, the answer would be the same as the number. If the number given were to be a negative number, it would be it's positive value. To clarify, it doesn't matter whether a number is positive or negative because you're just trying to find how far away that number is from zero. For example, the absolute value of both 5 and -5 would be 5, because both numbers are 5 numbers away from zero.
Taking it more in depth in finding absolute value, you will learn that while some equations have one solution, others can have two solutions, or even none.You know that there will be no solution when there's one negative number outside of the absolute value lines, whether it's infront of them or behind the equal sign.
An example of this would be
Taking it more in depth in finding absolute value, you will learn that while some equations have one solution, others can have two solutions, or even none.You know that there will be no solution when there's one negative number outside of the absolute value lines, whether it's infront of them or behind the equal sign.
An example of this would be