Question

Stocks are units of ownership in a company. The stock market is a place where stocks are bought and sold. When you buy a stock, you own a part of the company. If the company’s profits go up, the stock value goes up. If the profits fall, so does the value of the stock. Stock prices rise and fall every day.

Last week, Isabelle bought stock in a toy company. Since then, the price of the stock had a change of -3 dollars. What is the absolute value of -3?


|–3| =

Answer 1

@MrMudd183

Answer 2

What do you think it is?

Answer 3

3?

Answer 4

Correct, do you understand fully why?

Answer 5

not really can u explain to me

Answer 6

Sure, absolute value is basically the distant from the number to zero

So take |-13| for example, what is that absolute value?

Answer 7

13

Answer 8

Correct

Answer 9

so bassially it would be like for exaple -50 its absulte thing would be 50

Answer 10

Yea, and if it was |25|, then the absolute value would be 25. You got it

Answer 11

yes tysm

Answer 12

You're welcome :)

Answer 13

Yeah that's correct what Mudd said

To solve the problem though You have to plot -3 on the number line find the interval or distance that point is from 0. That's the same thing as absolute value. |-3| is 3 points away from 0. Just count. The absolute value of 3 is 3, (|3|=3) The absolute value of -3, is 3 (|-3|=3)