Question

Which list of values is ordered from least to greatest?

A.
|–5|, 0, 3, –|–4|

B.
–7, –|–3|, 0, |–4|

C.
–|6|, |–3|, 1, 4

D.
|–12|, –|–5|, 2, |–8|

Answer 1

@SolomonZelman

Answer 2

this is hard

Answer 3

Absolute value of a negative number, will give you the same positive number.
For example |-4|=4

(because distance on the number line, from -4 to 0 is same as from 4 to 0, -- 4 units)

Answer 4

yes i know but this is confuseing

Answer 5

Re-write each option and simplify all the terms that have |...|

Answer 6

What do you think the answer is?

Answer 7

like option D for example:

\(\large\color{black}{ \displaystyle |–12|,~~~ –|–5|,~~~~ 2, ~~~~|–8| }\)
\(\large\color{black}{ \displaystyle 12,~~~ –5,~~~~ 2, ~~~~8 }\)

this order is NOT right, because the term |-12| should have been at the very end on the right, not as it is now.

Answer 8

ok

Answer 9

its not a or b

Answer 10

Why not B?

Answer 11

its not in write order

Answer 12

\(|\)-3\(|\)=3

thus, -\(|\)-3\(|\)=-3

Answer 13

and \(|\)-4\(|\)=4