How do you solve $abs(x)=8$ ?

Question

3097 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2017-07-11T22:48:58

$x=±8$

The absolute function has two branches, one where $x≥0$ and the other where $x<0$ .

Therefore, if $|x|=8$ , it just means that $±x=8$ so $x=±8$

How do you solve abs(x)=8abs(x)=8?