Ms. Fuhrman owes $15. What is the magnitude of her debt?
15
|-3| =
3
A person gains 10 pounds. What is the magnitude of their weight gain?
10
Magnitude
The distance a number is from zero, the size of a number
What is the opposite of above sea level
below sea level
|2| + |-2| =
4
A student loses 4 points on his math quiz. What is the magnitude of the loss?
4
What integer describes each situation?
A loss of 6 yards?
A weight gain of 12 pounds,
15 feet below sea level,
-6, +12, -15
|-100|
100
Ms. Fuhrman owes her friend 15 dollars and owes her mom 7. What is the magnitude of each debt?
15 and 7
Two numbers that are the same distance from zero but on opposite sides of zero
opposites
True or false: Integers includes decimals and fractions
false
Define magnitude