Absolute Value

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

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Evaluate: |-12|

• 12

• -12

• 0

• 1.2

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What is the definition of an opposite?

• The distance a number is to zero

• A number with the same digit(s) but opposite sign

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Solve for x
l 5x l = 40

• x = 8 and x =-8
• x = 35 and x = -35
• Only x = 8
• No Solution

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Solve for x

l x−1l=10

• Only x= 11 and x = 9

• x = 11 and x = -11

• x = 11

• x = 11 and x = -9

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What is the absolute value of |55|?

• -55
• 45
• 55
• --55

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what is the absolute value of -|24|? 

• -24
• 24
• 98
• 11

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Is absolute value always positive?

• yes
• no

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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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Solve the absolute value equation. 

• {7}
• {-7, 7}
• {0, 7}
• No Solution

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