Comparing Integers
Which is greater: −4 or 2?
2
Order from least to greatest: 3, −2, 0
−2, 0, 3
Find |−7|.
7
Write an integer to represent 8 feet below sea level.
-8
How long is a day?
23 h 56 min
Fill in <, >, or =
−9 ___ −3
−9 < −3
Order from greatest to least: −6, 4, −1, 7
7, 4, −1, −6
Which numbers have an absolute value of 5?
−5 and 5
A bank account change of −$25 represents what happened to the balance?
Decreased/lost $25
What is the longest organ in the human body.
The Skin
A submarine is at −120 ft and a diver is at −85 ft. Who is at the greater elevation?
Diver (−85)
Four temperatures are −3°C, 5°C, −8°C, and 0°C. Order them from coldest to warmest.
−8, −3, 0, 5
Point A is 9 units from 0 on a number line. What are the two possible integers for Point A?
−9 and 9
Write an integer for each: 12 floors above ground, ground level, and 4 floors below ground.
12, 0, −4
What shape is the earth.
An oblate spheroid.
a and b are negative integers. a is farther from 0 than b. Which is greater, a or b? Explain.
b, if the both are negative they are both to the left of zero. If a is farther from zero that means its farther to the left.
Put −a, 0, a in order from least to greatest if a is a positive integer.
−a, 0, a
An integer has an absolute value of 18 and is less than −10. What is the integer?
-18
A building labels the ground floor 0. Floors above ground use positive integers and floors below ground use negative integers. An elevator display shows −6.
Which situation could the integer −6 represent?
A. The elevator moved down 6 floors
B. The elevator is 6 floors below ground
C. The elevator has 6 floors remaining
D. The elevator started 6 floors above ground
B
What animal kills the most people each year?
Mosquitoes
There are two mystery integers a and b
1. |a| > |b|
2. a < 0 < b
Which is greater, a or b? Explain how you know without choosing values.
b is greater because a is negative (a < 0) and b is positive (b>0) and all positive numbers are larger than negative numbers.
There are three mystery integers a, b, and c.
1. |a| < |b| < |c|
2. All three integers are negative.
Order a, b, and c from least to greatest.
c, b, a
There is one mystery integer x
1. |x| > 6
2. |x| < 9
List every possible integer value of x. (Four answers)
−8, −7, 7, 8
At noon, a hiker is 350 feet above sea level. A cave directly below the hiker extends 500 feet downward from the hiker’s position. What integer represents the elevation of the bottom of the cave?
-150 ft
What is the largest desert on Earth?