Comparing Absolute Value Math
The absolute value of 0 is 0.
Comparing absolute value math. The absolute value of a number is the distance to zero. Compare absolute value of integers. Clearly 7 is greater than 9. To understand this let us mark 4 and 4 on a number line.
Evaluate the following ask yourself how far is the number from zero. Evaluate the absolute values and then compare. Distance cannot be negative so the absolute value is always positive. Because when a number becomes greater and greater with negative sign the original value of the number becomes smaller and smaller.
Let us compare the two negative integers 9 and 7. To show that we want the absolute value of something we put marks either side they are called bars and are found on the right side of a keyboard like these examples. Order numbers written in absolute value form from least to greatest. Examples solutions videos worksheets stories and songs to help grade 7 students learn how about comparing the absolute value of integers.
So in practice absolute value means to remove any negative sign in front of a number and to think of all numbers as positive or zero. If we take above value for both 7 and 9 the result will be different. This video provides three example of comparing integers and absolute value of integers using great than less than and equals. On the above number line 4 is 4 units from 0 to the left.
Since 4 is 4 units from 0 we say that the absolute value of 4 is 7. Write an inequality to compare absolute values.