Introduction to Absolute Value

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

-3 and 3 are opposites .
True or False?

• True 

• False

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

|−15| + |−4| = __________

• 19

• -19

• 11

• -11

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

|x| = 3. What are the possible integral values of x to make this statement true?

• 0 and 3

• -3 and 3

• 1 and 3

• -3 and 0

|−7| − |3| = ___________

• -4

• 4

• 10

• -10

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the distance of – 4, 125 from zero on a number line?

• 4, 512

• 2, 415

• 4, 215

• 4, 125

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

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 absolute value of |-26|.

• 26

• -26

• 0

• -20

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Which is a true statement? 

• |-2.1|=-2.1

• |-2.1| = -1.2

• |2.1| = -2.1

• |2.1| = |-2.1|

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Evaluate the expression.
|5 + 4|

• 9

• -9

• -1

• 1

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C