Intro to Absolute Value

What is the vertex of the absolute value function?

• (4, 0)

• (0, 4)

• (-infinity, infinity)

• [4, infinity)

The absolute value of a number is its distance from 0.

• False

• True

The absolute value of a number is...

• always the same as the original number

• the opposite of the number

• always a positive number

• 0

|-587|

Why is the absolute value of a number always positive?

• because we are talking about distance from 0 and distance is always positive

• because the absolute value stays the same

• because it is the opposite of the number

• because it is in inverse

What is the absolute value of 8?

What is the absolute value of -4?

|-10|=

|-12|

|-951|