what is the absolute value of a number?
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Direct link to Benny C's post “The absolute value of a number means the distance ...” The absolute value of a number means the distance from 0. -5 is 5 units away from 0. So the absolute value of that -5 is 5. You cannot have negative distance, so it has to be positive.
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If the fraction is positive, it is its own absolute value. If the fraction is negative, remove the negative sign. That is the absolute value. In other words, the absolute value of 1/7 is 1/7, and the absolute value of -5/8 is 5/8.
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When you see an absolute value in a problem or equation, it means that whatever is inside the absolute value is always positive. Absolute values are often used in problems involving distance and are sometimes used with inequalities. Later we will discuss graphs of absolute value equations and inequalities.
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The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its distance from zero. Generalisations of the absolute value for real numbers occur in a wide variety of mathematical settings. For example, an absolute value is also defined for the complex numbers, the quaternions, ordered rings, fields and vector spaces.
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The precise term in "non-negative." Absolute value is a magnitude and is either positive or zero. Zero is neither positive nor negative. But the absolute value of any non-zero number can be thought of as it's distance from zero and it will always be positive.
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The absolute value is used in the real world to define the DIFFERENCE or change from one point to another. A good example I found was that if the everybody is going 55 mph and you are going 70 or 40 mph you will most likely get a ticket. It matters because the difference between you and everybody else is 15 mph.
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Just multiply the absolute values and make the answer positive. When you multiply two integers with different signs, the result is always negative. Just multiply the absolute values and make the answer negative. When you divide two integers with the same sign, the result is always positive.
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The Opposite and the Absolute Value. The opposite of a number (also known as the additive inverse) is the number that is the same distance from 0 on the number line.
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To evaluate the absolute value of a number or expression, press the math key arrow over to NUM and select 1: abs (. This will place a template on the home screen. An alternative method of evaluating absolute value is to use the function key. Press alpha then the f2 (window key), and select option 1: abs(.
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absolute value. noun. The numerical value of a real number without regard to its sign. For example, the absolute value of −4 (written |-4|) is 4. Also called numerical value .
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One way to define the relative difference of two numbers is to take their absolute difference divided by the maximum absolute value of the two numbers. if at least one of the values does not equal zero.
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An absolute value equation has no solution if the absolute value expression equals a negative number since an absolute value can never be negative. You can write an absolute value inequality as a compound inequality. This holds true for all absolute value inequalities.
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An absolute value equation has no solution if the absolute value expression equals a negative number since an absolute value can never be negative. You can write an absolute value inequality as a compound inequality. This holds true for all absolute value inequalities. You can replace > above with ≥ and < with ≤.
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Well, since the absolute value of a single number is its distance from zero, the sum of the absolute values of two numbers is not the distance between them, it's the sum of each number's distance from zero.
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The absolute value of the complex number, 2i, is 2. We can put the complex number, 2i, in the form a + bi by letting a = 0.
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The definition of a number's absolute value is its distance from 0 . Since 0 is zero units away from itself, the absolute value of 0 is just 0 .