Question

Find the absolute value.
|-7| - |4| =

Answer 1

any ideas?

Answer 2

No

Answer 3

what does absolute value mean to you?

Answer 4

The distance between 0 to the number

Answer 5

The absolute value is the distance from 0 on the number line.

Answer 6

Let's break this into parts.

Answer 7

How far is -7 from 0?

Answer 8

Good, can that ever be negative?

Answer 9

No

Answer 10

so | -7 | = ?

Answer 11

How far is 4 from 0?

Answer 12

7

Answer 13

That's right.

Answer 14

This leaves you with simple subtraction: 7-4=?

Answer 15

replace | - 7 | with +7