Question

What is the range of the function y = -|x|?

Answer 1

firstly, do you understand what |x| means?

Answer 2

What does it mean?

Answer 3

|x| means the "absolute value" of x.

you might find this site useful in helping you understand this concept first: http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/absolute-value.html

Answer 4

I know what it means now. Would it be all real numbers

Answer 5

so what would |-3| equal?

Answer 6

3

Answer 7

correct.

so now can you see what the range of y=-|x| would be?

Answer 8

I'm asking you for the choices - I'm asking you what you think is the answer.

Answer 9

what range of values would |x| cover?

Answer 10

Negatives and positives

Answer 11

how could it cover negatives?

are you sure that you have really understood what |x| means.

I would advise you to first study that link I gave you to make sure you fully understand what it means.

Answer 12

So first of all: absolute value means, whatever you plug in comes out to be positive.
Well |0| is 0. So now if you have x, and you get a positive number when you put any x into an absolute value, then a negative times that positive number would give you a negative. So your range would be zero and all negatives