Question

Select the correct answer.

Which set of absolute values is compared correctly?
A.
|-7| < |8| < |9| < |-10|
B.
|-4| < |-3| < |3| < |4|
C.
|2| > |-5| > |-7| > |-8|
D.
|-4| > |9| > |-3| > |-10|

Answer 1

B Is correct.

Why?- On a number line it goes to negitive numbers from the left,

so when using numbers like this and having to compare them Just

remember that the negitive numbers start from the left.

Why isn't it A.? The negitive is infrount of the 'normal' numbers.

and since negitive always comes first in a vertical number line that

makes A. incorrect.

Answer 2

your answer will be A because the absolute value of -7 is 7 that is smaller than 8 8 smaller than 9 and -10 absolute value is 10 so A displayed in the right number sequence