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death valley has an elevation of -282ft relative to sea level. explain how to use absolute value to describe the elevation of death valley as a positive integer.

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The absolute value shows the distance away from 0 (sea level), so the positive integer would be 282 ft, because it is the distance away from zero which is always positive
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