Question

|x-6|=11 solve this equation

Answer 1

Answer: It could be -5 or 17

Explanation: So, it can be both, but as I see it would most likely be 17 because I see you put x-6 as an absolute value. so, to find the value of x, we could do 11 + 6 (Inverse operations), so 11 + 6 = 17. If it was NOT the absolute value of x-6, we could find it to be -5, by subtracting -6 from 11, to get -5. I hope this helps you understand now, if any questions please comment down below.

Answer 2

x = -5 or x = 17

Explanation:

The absolute value is the number's distance from 0.

So, we need to write two equations.

x - 6 = 11

x - 6 = -11.

Next, we need to add 6 to both sides of each equations.

11 + 6 = 17

-11 + 6 = -5

So, x = 17 and x = -5.