Absolute Value Equations Warm-Up

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

Evaluate: |-12|

• 12

• -12

• 0

• 1.2

Solve the absolute value equation. 

• {7}

• {-7, 7}
• {0, 7}
• No Solution

• 8
  

• -8

• 15

• -15

Solve for a:

|2a - 10| = 6

• a = 8, a = 5

• a = 2

• a = 8

• a = 8, a = 2

Solve for v:

|v + 8| − 5 = 2

• {-1,-15}

• {-1,-5}

• {-15,15}

• No Solution