Question

Evaluate -8 · |2|.

-10
10
-16
16

Answer 1

-16

Answer 2

Are you sure it is negative. My assignment says absolute values are always positive.

Answer 3

Since the absolute value is for 2 only, the ABSOLUTE value of 2 is what's gonna get multiplied by -8. Therefore, that would be 2 * -8 which is -16.

Answer 4

Yea if the whole calculation came with an absolute value then yeah it's +16, but here it's just one of the two values that has an absolute value applied on. Hence it's -16.

Answer 5

Thank you for explaining. That helped(:

Answer 6

You're welcome matey!