Absolute values are a way of finding a distant from zero, which means there will be 2 answers; one will be positive, and the other will be negative.
|<em>3x - 4</em>| = 5<em>and</em> |3<em>x - 4</em> = a^5 Because you need 2 answers, you have to make 5 positive and negative.
Another way to write this equation would be...
5=|3x-4|=—5
Now lets continue...
5=3x-4=—5
Add 4 to both sides...
9=3x=—1
Now divide by 3...
3=x= -1/3
So the solution is...
X={-1/3 3}
Answer:
0.67% probability he will have to shut down after this month
Step-by-step explanation:
In a Poisson distribution, the probability that X represents the number of successes of a random variable is given by the following formula:

In which
x is the number of sucesses
e = 2.71828 is the Euler number
is the mean in the given time interval.
On average sells 8.9 machines per month.
So 
Using the Poisson distribution, what is the probability he will have to shut down after this month
If he sells less than 3 machines.






0.67% probability he will have to shut down after this month