this week we learned about an absolute value of a real number. What that entails is how far a number away is from the number zero and with absolute values it’s always going to be positive.

In the question I show above in the barriers of the absolute values I have 5-8 which normally would give -3 but since it is within the barriers of the absolute values that means it’s going to turn into a positive 3 giving us the answer to the equation which is 7