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This symbol is an <u>absolute value</u> symbol. It means that we are looking for that number's distance from 0. There is no such thing as a negative distance; the distances are all positive, so both ∣9∣ and ∣-9∣ have a value of 9.
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Answer:
18=b
Step-by-step explanation:
Whenever there is no exponent on a variable,
you can give it an exponent of 1.
So we can rewrite the x's in this problem as x¹.
When we multiply two terms together
with like bases, we add their exponents.
So now just add their exponents to get x².
