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Solve |x| > -1

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The question

Question: solve |x| > −1.

|x| > −1

The bars give how far from 0.

A distance is never negative.

| | is never negative

So it is always greater than −1.

Every number works.

|x| > −1 every number
Answer
|x| > −1 every number

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