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What are the two solutions to the following absolute value?
|2x-4|=6
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The equation |2x-4|=6 can be split into two separate equations:

2x-4=6
2x=10
x=5

and

2x-4=-6
2x=-10
x=-5

So the solutions are x = 5 and x = -5.
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