Let x=aunt's agethen x-14=Mrs West's ageso we have:60-(x-14)=x-40 simplify60-x+14=x-40 subtract x from each side and also subtract 60 and 14 from each side60-60-x-x+14-14=x-x-40-60-14 collect like terms
-2x=-114x=57------------aunt's agex-14=57-14= 43----------Mrs West's ageck60-43=57-4017=17
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Those little "sticks" are called absolute value.
For example, the absolute value of 2 is 2, and the absolute value of −2 is also 2. The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its distance from zero along real number line.
Thus, it doesn't matter if the number is positive or negative. As it only counts its <u>d</u><u>i</u><u>s</u><u>t</u><u>a</u><u>n</u><u>c</u><u>e</u><u> </u><u>f</u><u>r</u><u>o</u><u>m</u><u> </u><u>0</u><u>,</u><u> </u><u>o</u><u>n</u><u> </u><u>t</u><u>h</u><u>e</u><u> </u><u>n</u><u>u</u><u>m</u><u>b</u><u>e</u><u>r</u><u> </u><u>l</u><u>i</u><u>n</u><u>e</u><u>.</u>
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