Question

Um so my was asking me a question and wants me to explain it to her. She said this and I don't know what she said next. Could you "fill in the blank". Thanks!

"when you are dealing with absolute values got to be really careful about what your final step looks like.
So when you isolate your absolute value bars, if you have the absolute value of something we know this can be positive is greater than a negative number your golden cuz a positive number is always going to be greater than a negative number. But if you end up with an absolute value of something and it's less than a negative number that's never going to be true because _______________
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Answer 1

Absolute value is the distance from zero, it doesnt matter if its -58 or 58 its absolute value is always going to be positive, so if you have a negative just get rid of that negative sign. Absolute value makes it all positive -492= 492 in absolute value.