Section 5.3 Homework Hints

Problems 7-8
See Example 1. Simplify the expression inside the absolute value before finding the absolute value. For example |-3 + 5| is not the same as |-3| + |5|. We find:
|-3 + 5| = |2| = 2
|-3| + |5| = 3 + 5 = 8

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