Question

What is the absolute value of -2? Explain how you know with a complete sentence.

Answer 1

Its is 2

Explanation:

Because it is 2 numbers away from 0, however many numbers away from 0 is the absolute value of a number. For example: the absolute value of 5 is 5 because it is......? 5 numbers away from 0.

Answer 2

Answer: 2

Explanation:

The absolute value of -2 is 2.

Imagine you have a number line, and you plotted a point from the origin (0) to (-2). The distance to reach the point is 2, and that is what the absolute value is asking for.

Think of absolute value as its distance from 0.