Question

If a number is ____, then the number is less than its absolute value. (Can you help me fill in the blank?in class we were learning about positive and negative numbers such as -5 and 5 and/or +5)

Thank you!

Answer 1

It would be negative.

Absolute value is basically asking how far away something is from 0.

So say you had a number, 7. 7's distance from 0 is 7, so it would still be 7.

However, when absolute value really plays in is negative numbers. If you had -7, the distance from 0 would still be 7. It wouldn't be -7, so the absolute value of -7 would be 7.

And a negative version of a number is always less than the positive number.

Hope this helped!