Absolute Value equations

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

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

| –3 |

• 3
• -3
• 0.30
• 30

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Evaluate the expression.
|–5| + 8

• 3
• 13
• -13
• -3

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the reason that absolute value is always written as a positive?

• Absolute value is talking about numbers so it must be positive.
• Absolute value does not always have to be positive.
• Absolute value is like a clock it has only positive numbers.
• Absolute value is talking about distance, distance is always measured by positive numbers.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the absolute value of |-26|.

• 26
• -26
• 0
• -20

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Is absolute value always positive?

• yes
• Positive or 0

|v + 8| − 5 = 2 

• {-1,-15}
• {-1,-5}
• {-15,15}
• No Solution

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CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3

∣ 2x + 9 ∣ = 15

• x = 3 
• x = 3
  x = -6
• x = 3
  x = -12
• x = 6
  x = -12

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

| x – 3 |= 0

• 3
• -3
• {-3, 3}
• no solution

Solve |x – 12| - 3 = 11.

• -2, -26
• -2, 26
• 3, 25
• 4, -7

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3