Will Medal and Fan

Evaluate the expression:

|n| = –5.

Question

Will Medal and Fan

Evaluate the expression:


|n| = –5.

mehek14 · Answer

options?

anonymous · Answer

A.
	

5
	
 
B.
	

1
	
 
C.
	

0
	
 
D.
	

–5

anonymous · Answer

@Mehek14

mehek14 · Answer

|n| means that the value of n is the same as -5
doesn't matter if it is positive or not

bookworm14 · Answer

for this you really don't even need answer choices. This is absolute value that means that any number positive or negative is the same distance from zero and will equal a positive number. so |-5| = 5 (because it is 5 points away from 0 and |5|= 5 because it is also 5 points away from 0

hope this helps! ~Bree :)

anonymous · Answer

so it would be D?

mehek14 · Answer

Can you choose more than 1 answer?

anonymous · Answer

no

mehek14 · Answer

well there are two answers

anonymous · Answer

It would be 0, sorry thats what i meant

bookworm14 · Answer

technically there is no correct answer choice here because absolute value NEVER equals a negative number, but if i was FORCED to pick, i would chose 0 :P