Absolute Value Practice

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

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

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.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the absolute value of |-26|.

• 26
• -26
• 0
• -20

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the absolute value of |572|.

• 275
• -572
• 57
• 572

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Which has the same absolute value as -55?

• 0
• -1
• 1
• 55

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

|x-3|=40

• x = 43, x = -37

• x = 43, x = -43

• x = -43, x = 37

• x = 43

|x+7|=12

• x = -5, x = 19

• x = 5, x = -19

• x = 5, x = -5

• x = 12, x = -7

|-2 - 4n| = 34

• n = -9, n = 8
• n = 9, n = 8
• n = -9
• n = 8

|2a - 10| = 6

• a = 8, a = 5
• a = 2
• a = 8
• a = 8, a = 2

• x=2 or x= -16

• x=-16

• x=16 

• x=2