Absolute Value & Operations with Integers

What is the absolute value of a number?

• The value of a number

• The distance the number is from zero

• The opposite of a number

• The reciprocal of a number

Find the absolute value of |-54|.

• 45

• -54

• 0

• 54

The absolute value of zero is zero because...

• Zero divides the number line

• Zero is 0 distance from zero. It is neither positive nor negative.

• Zero is not a number

What is the absolute value of |26|?

What is the absolute value of | -5 * 4 |?

Evaluate | x - 11 | when x = 2.

• -11

• -9

• 9

• 21

• • - 450

• • - 4500

• • - 440

• • - 45