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Jamaal is allowed to walk no farther than three blocks in either direction from his house. If his house is located on the 57th block of the town, which absolute value equation can be used to determine the farthest block to which Jamaal is allowed to walk?

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The 60th block is the farthest he can walk

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|x-57|=3
x being the number of the block.
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