Absolute Value Equations

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.7

CCSS.6.NS.C.8

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.5

CCSS.6.NS.C.7

CCSS.6.NS.C.8

Solve the absolute value equation. 

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

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7

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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CCSS.8.EE.C.7

Solve for x
l 2x−1 l = 9

• x = 5 and x =-4
• x = 5 and x = -5
• Only x = 5
• No Solution

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7

Solve for x
l 4x−3 l = 17

• x = 5 and x =-3.5
• x = 0 and x = -5
• x = 10 and x = -10
• No Solution

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7

Solve for x
l 3x + 2 l = 5

• x = -2.333... and x = 1
• x = 4 and x = 8
• x = 0
• No Solution

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7

Solve for x
l x−6 l + 4= 10

• x = 12 and x = 0
• x = 3 and x = -3
• x = -12 and x = 0
• No Solution

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CCSS.7.EE.B.3

|v + 8| − 5 = 2 

• {-1,-15}
• {-1,-5}
• {-15,15}
• No Solution

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7

−2|−2r − 4| = -12

• {3,1}

• {-5,1}

• {-3}

• No Solution

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7