Absolute Value Inequalities

Exercise 3.

Find the solutions of the inequality

|x-3|>5.

Answer.

We want to find all real numbers x whose distance to 3 exceeds 5. We are talking about the numbers in the interval $(-\infty,-2)$ and in the interval $(8,\infty)$.

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