Question

Mary said that the temperature outside on two differnt days had an absolute value 20. Kate said she was wrong because the temperature on those two days were different. could Mary be correct? Explain the reasoning.

Answer 1

Mary is correct we don’t know the temperature but it can be implied that one is 20 and the other is -20 because of absolute value which is the distance a number away from zero that means that you have two answers or two days in this case that both have an absolute value of 20

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