Absolute Values Lesson

Absolute Values Lesson

Mrs. Palmer

Multiple Choice

Find the absolute values.

• 62

• $-62$

• No solution

Multiple Choice

Find the absolute values.

• 23

• $-23$

• No solution

Multiple Choice

Find the absolute values.

• 7

• $-7$

• No solution

Absolute Value...What is it then?

• Makes things "Positive"

• Distance away from something

• DOES NOT make things negative

Multiple Choice

Simplify.

• -21

• 21

• 13

• -13

Multiple Choice

Simplify.

• 8

• $1\frac{1}{3}$

• 512

• -38

Multiple Choice

Simplify.

• 21

• -21

• 38

• -38

Multiple Select

What values make the statement true?

 $\left|x\right|=5$  

• 5

• 5x

• -5

• -5x

Multiple Select

 $\left|x\right|=125$  

• 125

• -125

• 125x

• -125x

Multiple Choice

Solve for x
l 5x l = 40

• x = 8 and x =-8
• x = 35 and x = -35
• Only x = 8
• No Solution

There are 2 solutions to EVERY ABSOLUTE VALUE PROBLEM!

A negative side and a positive side!

Multiple Choice

|3m - 9| = 18

• m = 9,-3

• m = 9,3

• m = 9

• no solution

Multiple Choice

∣ 2x + 9 ∣ = 15

• x = 3

• x = 3, -6

• x = 3, -12

• x = 6, -12