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Why might you expect most absolute value equations to have two solutions? Why not three or four?

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If the absolute value expression is not equal to zero, the expression inside an absolute value can be either positive or negative. So, there can be at most two solutions. Looking at this graphically, an absolute value graph can intersect a horizontal line at most two times.

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