How do you solve |3x6|=5?

1 Answer
Jul 30, 2015

There are no solutions.

Explanation:

The absolute value of a number is never negative.

If the problem had been |3x6|=5 instead, there would have been two solutions: the unique value of x where 3x6=5 and the unique value of x where 3x6=5.

3x6=53x=11x=113

3x6=53x=1x=13

So x=113 and x=13 are the two solutions of |3x6|=5, but that's not how you wrote your original question.