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Hi, can someone explain the working of this question
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Hello,
I am interested too. I don't really know how to tackle this problem. Can someone please give us an explanation ?
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Thank you very much ! I understand now ! :) :) :thumbup:
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Coggi abhishek31,

please fine the attached image, hope i am able to answer the working principle of modulus questions like this.

Thanks a lot. I get everything except for one thing:

how do you determine the ranges inequality signs? You had:

x<3, 3x<5, 5x<11 and x>11

How did you determine it's ≤ for some and not just <?
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The thing is to understand that |x-3| means:
The distance between x and 3. So the given inequality states that the combined distance between x and 3 plus distance between x and 5 is less than distance between x and 11.
We can use the number line to easily count that there are 9 such x:
-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6.

Does it help?

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