Question

I have no idea how to solve this. |x-3|=|5-x|

Answer 1

The bars mean absolute value so they just turn everything positive. So you have |2x|=|8| once you move everything to its respective side, then you divide by 2 and get |x|=|4|. Now you can drop the absolute value bars because everything is already positive. So your final answer is x=4.

Answer 2

4-3=1 and 5-4= 1 so it's 4