Absolute values

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Absolute values

by moneyman » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:53 am
Man I got stumped on this one!!
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by cramya » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:57 am
https://www.beatthegmat.com/gmatprep-dou ... 22395.html

I have posted a possible solution here

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by moneyman » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:12 am
Thats a wonderful approach Cramya..but when it comes to absolute values, I first remove the absolute notations and use positive and negative values as we generally do to test absolute values..how do you approach all the absolute value questions generally ?
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by cramya » Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:45 am
Thats a wonderful approach Cramya..but when it comes to absolute values, I first remove the absolute notations and use positive and negative values as we generally do to test absolute values..how do you approach all the absolute value questions generally ?
Moneyman,

I do it the same way too. For this problem I felt that it may be complicated and tried doing it the way I did.