Solving 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.7

CCSS.6.NS.C.8

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

|v + 8| − 5 = 2 

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

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CCSS.6.EE.B.5

CCSS.6.NS.C.7

−2|−2r − 4| = -12

• {3,1}

• {-5,1}

• {-5,5}

• No Solution

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3

How many solutions does the equation have?

-4 = |-6v| - 4

• no solution

• one solution

• two solutions

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CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.A.2

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3

y=|x+1|−4

• A
• B
• C
• y=D

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.1

CCSS.HSA.CED.A.2

CCSS.HSA.REI.D.10

CCSS.HSA.REI.D.11

Which graph matches the function:
y = -2|x - 3| + 5

• A
• B
• C
• D

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.2

CCSS.HSA.REI.D.10

CCSS.HSF.IF.B.4

CCSS.HSF.IF.C.7

 |−2n| + 10 = −50

• {30, -30}
• {20,-20}
• {-5,5}
• No Solution

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CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3

Solve the following equation:

3| −8x| + 8 = 80

• {−7/3, 7/3}

• {−3, 3}

• {11/3, −11/3}

• No Solution

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CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3

|2a - 10| = 6

• a = 8, a = 5
• a = 2
• a = 8
• a = 8, a = 2

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3