Absolute Value and Inequalities
The distance a number is from zero on a number line, which is always non-negative.
What is absolute value?
On a horizontal number line, numbers located to the left of zero are called this.
What are negative numbers?
The Sum of (-5) and (-3)
What is -8
The simplified sum of 1/5 + 2/5.
What is 3/5?
An elevation of 50 feet below sea level is written as this integer.
What is -50?
The value of |-15|.
15
These three numbers ordered from least to greatest: 4, -7, -2.
What is -7, -2, 4
The sum of -10 + 14
What is 4?
The sum of -2.5 + 4.1.
What is 1.6?
A bank balance changes by -$20 on Monday and +$35 on Tuesday. The net change in the balance over these two days.
What is +$15 (or a gain of $15)?
The opposite of -8.
What is -8?
Between -1/2 and -1/4, the fraction that sits further to the right on a horizontal number line.
What is -1/4?
The sum of -100 + 7
What is -97?
The simplified sum of 1/4 + (-3/4).
What is -1/2?
A climber starts at an altitude of -12 meters and climbs up 20 meters. Their new altitude
What is 8 meters (or +8 meters)?
The simplified value of -|-12|.
These rational numbers ordered from least to greatest: 0.5, -0.8, -3/4, 0.
What is -0.8, -3/4, 0, 0.5?
The value of -18 + 25 + (-7).
What is 0?
The simplified sum of -1/3 + 5/6.
What is 1/2?
Between an account balance of -$45 and an account balance of -$30, the balance that represents owing more money.
What is -$45?
Two numbers that have the same absolute value but sit on opposite sides of zero on a number line are called this
What are additive inverses (or opposites)?
On a vertical number line representing elevation, a point moving from -12 feet to -5 feet is moving in this direction.
What is up or upward?
The temperature was -4°F in the morning and rose 11 degrees by afternoon. This was the final temperature.
What is 7F?
The simplified sum of -2 1/2 + 1 3/4.
What is -3/4?
On a vertical thermometer, the high temperature was 3.5°C and the low temperature was -6.2°C. The total distance in degrees between these two values.
What is 9.7°C?