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Death Valley has an elevation if -282 feet 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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Death Valley has an elevation if -282 feet 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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it would be flipped so 282 from zero
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Absolute value is just the distance the number is from 0 on a number line.

So -282 is 282 units away from zero.
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