Solve

|a|-3/4=-5/8

a. 1/8 or -1/8
b. 7/8 or -7/8
c. 1 3/8 or -1 3/8
d. No solution

could someone walk me through perhaps? I missed a ton of class and there's nothing about this stuff in the review notes my teacher gave me.

|a|-3/4=-5/8

|a| = -5/8 + 3/4 = 1/8
clearly, a = 1/8 or -1/8