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Explain how an absolute value equation of the form |x - b|=c can have 2, 1, or solutions

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Explanation:

The value in the absolute brackets | x-b | can be negative or positive but the result is a positive number....

so you can have this

x-b = c OR x-b = -c which will often result in two solutions for x

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