Absolute Value Inequalities

Absolute Value Inequalities

Multiple Choice

What's a way to define absolute value?

• The value of a number
• The opposite of a number
• The distance of a number from zero
• The multiplicative inverse of a number

Multiple Choice

|-20|

• 20
• -20

Multiple Choice

Solve for x
l 5x l = 40

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

Multiple Choice

Solve for x
l 4x−3 l = 17

• x = 5 and x =-3.5
• x = 0 and x = -5
• x = 10 and x = -10
• No Solution

Multiple Choice

Solve:
 |x + 3| > 8

• x > 5 or x < -11
• x > 5
• all real numbers
• no solution