Study Questions

Negative

• Number less than zero

• Number greater than zero

The distance from the number to zero on a number line

• Opposites

• Inequality

• Absolute Value

• Magnitude

On a horizontal number line, the numbers to the left of zero are:

• positive

• negative

-8 > -2

• true

• false

-9 < -4

• true

• false

The greater the number on the right (positive), the number VALUE is:

• greater

• smaller

What is the absolute value of -5?

9 + 1 - 12 - 2

What is |-8|?

What is the definition of absolute value?

• The distance a number is to zero

• A positive number

• A number that has a value with a different sign