Adding Integers and Absolute Value

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

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

Evaluate the expression.
| 9 |

• 0.9
• 9
• -9
• 90

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

| –3 |

• 3
• -3
• 0.30
• 30

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

(-9) + (-8) =

• -17
• -1
• 1
• 17

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

-3 + -7 =

• -10
• -4
• 4
• 10

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

-22 + (-9)

• -11
• -31
• 11
• 31

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

Evaluate the expression.
|–11|

• (-11)
• -11
• 11
• -1

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

| –3 |

• 3
• -3
• 0.30
• 30

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

-3 + (-2)

• -5
• -1
• 1
• 5

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C