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Is the absolute value symbol another form of parentheses that all operations on the outside of the symbols be distributed into the absolute value symbols.

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No, they are just there to show that you are trying to find absolute value.
User Peter Prettenhofer
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no any variable in an absolute symbol comes out positive
|-6| = 6
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