Posted by Kenzay on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 5:00pm.
The -8 would be 8 because anything outside the absolute value is positive. I get 13 at least the way I learned it.
ya that makes sense thankyou :)
|-8|=8
|5|=5
|-8|+|5|=8+5=13
|| is absolute value of a number
On en.wikipedia you can read article about absolute value.
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