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Explain why the absolute value of a number is never negative

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Sample Response: The absolute value of a number is the distance the number is from 0 on a number line. Since distance is never negative, absolute value is never negative.

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Absolute value describes the distance of a number on the number line from 0 without considering which direction from zero the number lies. This pretty much means that absolute value is a distance, and there is no such thing as a negative distance.
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