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How do you solve | b - 3 | + 8 = 3 ?
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How do you solve | b - 3 | + 8 = 3 ?

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|b-3| +8 =3
|b-3| = -5

By the definition of absolute value, the answer does not exist because the absolute value of anything cannot be negative.
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