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

c

Answer 2

how yhu get the answer?

Answer 3

@ummm

Answer 4

Everything thing in the absolute values symbols gets turned into a positive as far as I know. So if you turn the numbers inside those into positive numbers then can you see which is the right one?

Answer 5

\[-\left| -5 \right|=-5 \] however \[\left| -5 \right| = +5\]

Answer 6

so its a?

Answer 7

@KyanTheDoodle can you help ?

Answer 8

If it hasn't already been said, the bars on the sides of a number make it positive.

Answer 9

im still confuse

Answer 10

However, if there is a negative sign outside of the lines, that makes it negative again.

Answer 11

You make the numbers inside the bars positive then you can get rid of them. if there is a sign outside of the bars apply that.

Answer 12

Ok. So draw a horizontal line, and then a little circle in the middle of it. Like this:

Answer 13

The space to the left of the circle is negative, and the space to the right of the circle is positive.

Answer 14

okay

Answer 15

now im thinking its a.

Answer 16

Ok. Let's try it out.

Answer 17

There's an issue with that answer. The bars outside of -5 make it positive remember? So it'd be the greatest instead of the least.

Answer 18

oh okay so cross off A

Answer 19

Yes. Now let's look at B.

Answer 20

k

Answer 21

I don't see anything wrong with B, do you?

Answer 22

no

Answer 23

Then that's your answer.

Answer 24

ty

Answer 25

No problem.