Question

How do you solve `|3x - 5| = -1`?

Answer 1

This has no solutions since `abs(t) >= 0` for any value of `t`

Explanation:

For any number `x`:

`abs(3x-5) >= 0`

So `abs(3x-5) = -1` has no solutions.

Here's what the graph of `abs(3x-5)` looks like:

graph{abs(3x-5) [-9.83, 10.17, -2.56, 7.44]}