Absolute Value Distance Expressions

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

Absolute value is (choose the best answer)

• Possibly negative, possibly positive

• Never 0

• Always positive or 0

• An odd name for a band

-|18|

• 18

• -18

• 17

• -17

|-6|

• 6

• -6

• 0

• -5

What is the vocab word?

The distance a number is from 0

• Absolute Value

• Integers

• Additive Inverses

• Whole Numbers

What is the distance between the following 2 integers? -20 and +30

• 10

• -10

• -50

• 50

Solve

• 2

• -2

• 6

• -6

What is Absolute Value?

• The set of whole numbers and their opposites.

• The distance a number is from zero

• The value of an absolute number.

• 100

A diver's elevation was -40 feet. A fish was swimming near by at an elevation of -23 feet. Which expression represents the distance between them?

|-4 + 2| =

• 2

• -2

• 6

• -6