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

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.

| –3 |

• 3
• -3
• 0.30
• 30

l - 4 l  + l -1 l

• 5
• 3
• 4
• -5

7 + (-14)

• 7
• 21
• -21
• -7

(-9) + (-8) =

• -17
• -1
• 1
• 17

Larry has $150 in his bank account. He deposits $27 and then writes a check for $96 and a check for $31. How much money is now in his account?

• $304
• $50
• $-4

A butterfly is 6 feet above sea level. It flies 45 up until a hungry bird chases the butterfly 49 feet down. Where is the butterfly compared to where it started?

• 2 feet above sea level
• 2 feet below sea level
• 100 feet above sea level
• 10 feet below sea level

What do you do when you are adding integers with different signs?

• subtract and keep sign of smaller number

• subtract and keep sign of larger number

• add and keep sign of smaller number number

• add and keep sign of larger number

-9 + 9

• 18
• -18
• 0
• 81