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Angelique says that find the absolute value of a number is the same as finding the opposite of the number
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Angelique says that find the absolute value of a number is the same as finding the opposite of the number

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This is false. Absolute value is finding how far away a term is from 0(or finding the positive version of the number. A counterexample to her claim would be |8|=8. this is an absolute value, but it is the same.
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