Absolute Value/Opposite Numbers Practice

Which BEST describes absolute value? Be sure to read all four answer choices before selecting your answer.

• Absolute value is always the opposite.

• Absolute value is a number's distance from 0.

• The absolute value of a number is sometimes negative.

• None of the above.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Find $\left|8\right|$  

•  $-8$  

•  $0$  

•  $8$  

•  $16$  

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Find $\left|-9\right|$  

•  $9$  

•  $0$  

•  $-9$  
  

•  $-18$  

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the opposite of

 $-12$  ?

•  $-12$  

•  $0$  

•  $12$  

• None of the above.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

What is the opposite of 12?

• 12
• -12
• 0
• 1/12

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

What is the opposite -5?

• 5
• 0
• -5
• 10

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

What is true about opposites?

• They are on the same side of zero
• They are the same distance away from zero.
• They are not really opposites

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

How do you know that 5 and -5 are opposites? 

• Because they both have a 5 
• They are the same distance from 0 and on opposite sides of 0 
• Because they are the same 
• They both are on a number line 

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

Evaluate the following expression
I -3 I

• 0
• 3
• -3
• .3

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

The opposite of a negative is always a ___________

• positive
• negative
• absolute value
• inequality

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A