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Simplify without using the absolute value sign

| x- ( - 18) | if x > - 18

User Varnan K
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The expression would be > 0.

Subtracting a negative is the same as adding a positive; therefore -18--18 = -18+18 = 0. Since we know that x>-18, 0 is below anything we could get from this.
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