Interpreting Integers and Rational Numbers

Absolute value of 11 is?

• -11
• 11

What is the opposite of -3?

• 3
• 0
• -1/3
• 1/3

Which shows the integers in order from greatest to least?

• 20,6,-2,-13
• -2,6,-13,20
• -13,-2,6,20
• 20,-13,6,-2

Is absolute value always positive?

• yes
• no

Which situation could the integer -50 represent?

• An increase of $50 in a bank account
• The temperature on a warm spring day
• The distance driven on the way to the beach
• A decrease of 50 employees

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

Which of the following is not an integer?

• -9
• 0
• 8.2
• 563

Order this set of integers from least to greatest:

8, 0, -1, 1, -3

• -1, -3, 0, 1, 8

• 0, 1, 8, -1, -3

• -3, -1, 0, 1, 8

• -3, -1, 8, 1, 0

What is an integer?

• A whole number

• A fraction

• A negative number only

• Negative and positive whole number and 0

Numbers like -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 are called

• whole numbers
• integers
• rational numbers
• natural numbers