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Which function below correctly illustrates the absolute value function

Which function below correctly illustrates the absolute value function-example-1
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The answer is the second choice:
a, if a is greater than or equal to 0 and
-a, if a is less than or equal to 0

You can check this by testing out values.
The absolute value of 5 is 5 while the absolute value of -5 is -(-5) or 5. This follows the chosen function.
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