What are the steps to solve
|x|=9

9 or -9

Step-by-step explanation:

the lines surrounding x are absolute value, which gets rid of negative and positives and simply ask the distance from x on a number line if the absolute value of x is 9, then x is 9 places away from 0 on the number line, so it could be 9 or -9

hope this helps :)

step-by-step explanation:

(s)he  is right it would be 5.5% because it is smaller than 15.5% or anything smaller than 15.5% in general