Rational Number Review

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.

Find the absolute value

• -43
• 43
• 0
• -1

Solve

• 2
• -2
• 6
• -6

the distance a number is from zero on a number line

• inequality
• absolute value
• negative number
• positive number

Write an integer for each situation.
a profit of $12

• 120
• -120
• 12
• 1.2

22°F below zero

• -22
• 2
• -2
• 22

The winter of 2015 was the coldest one on record for several cities in Michigan.   The chart below   shows the low temperatures for some cities in February. Which city had the warmest temperature?

• Detroit
• Flint
• Lansing
• Ann Arbor

Which point represents -9?

• V
• X
• Y
• Z

l-6l____6

• <
• >
• =

-10____-7

• <
• >
• =