(x-13)=76 please solve this abosolute value the answer is not 89 there is another answer?

Answer 1

Solve it if it were positive and if it were negative.

Like this:

positive case
x - 13 = 76
x = 89

negative case -(x-13) = 76

-x +13 = 76

-x = 63

x = -63

Answer 2

I'll cut-n-paste what I wrote in your original question, because I think that'll cover it:

Based on the way you phrase the question, I have a feeling you meant to write

| x - 13 | = 76

in other words, with absolute value bars instead of parentheses. If that's not what you meant, the other answers posted so far will do the trick.

Basically, when solving an absolute value equation, you wind up solving two different equations without absolute values. In this case, you need to solve the equations

x - 13 = 76 *or* x - 13 = -76

Each equation can be solved by the same process -- in this case, adding 13 to both sides -- but because of the different numbers on the right-hand side, the answers will be different:

x = 89 *or* x = -63

(Note that I wrote "or," not "and." x can't be 89 *and* -63 because 89 and -63 aren't the same number.)

In general, the equation

| x | = a

becomes the two equivalent equations:

x = a *or* x = -a

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

If the absolute value of (x-13) is 76, either ( x-13) is 76 or -(x-13) is 76
So on solving we shall get two values for x namely 89 and -63

Answer 4

the equation can be expressed in this form:
x-13=76
therefore,
x=76+13
x=89
1.Unless you have missed a square on the bracket, the answer is 89, and nothing else.
OR
2. Had there been a 'y' term, there would have been two answers. (x,y)
Had there been a square on the bracket, then there would have been two different answers.

Answer 5

63

Answer 6

if x <13, then |x-13| = -(x-13) 1
if x >13, then |x-13| = (x-13) 2

then, for1, with rhs=76 this gives x = -63
and, for2, with rhs=76 this gives x = 89

Answer 7

x should b 89 or -89

Answer 8

-63 if this is an absolute vaule problem.

|-63-13| = | -76| = 76

Answer 9

89 is the answer whoever told u thats not tru is lying.

Answer 10

Depends by which laws your 'equation' is governed.

Be more specific, is this a type of riddle, or did someone find a gullable side to you?