Trigonometry Examples

$| - 2 | x = 4$

Step 1

Divide each term in $| - 2 | x = 4$ by $| - 2 |$ .

$\frac{| - 2 | x}{| - 2 |} = \frac{4}{| - 2 |}$

Step 2

Simplify the left side.

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Step 2.1

Cancel the common factor of $| - 2 |$ .

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Step 2.1.1

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{| - 2 | x}{| - 2 |} = \frac{4}{| - 2 |}$

Step 2.1.2

Divide $x$ by $1$ .

$x = \frac{4}{| - 2 |}$

Step 3

Simplify the right side.

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Step 3.1

The absolute value is the distance between a number and zero. The distance between $- 2$ and $0$ is $2$ .

$x = \frac{4}{2}$

Step 3.2

Divide $4$ by $2$ .

$x = 2$