Use and apply the notation |x| for the absolute value for the real number x and the graph of y = |x|.

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y = |x| is assembled from two lines

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y = |x| is not a new curve — it keeps y = x for x ≥ 0 and y = −x for x < 0, which is also the distance from 0 on the number line.

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