### Instruction: What is the value of $x$ for which $|3x+5|$ is not positive? Express your answer as a common fraction.### Response: I know that the absolute value of a number is always positive or zero, never negative.
So the only way for $|3x+5|$ to not be positive is for it to be zero.
That means I need to find the value of $x$ that makes $3x+5=0$.
I can do this by subtracting 5 from both sides and then dividing by 3.
Subtracting 5 from both sides gives me $3x=-5$, and then dividing by 3 gives me $x=-5/3$.