Question

A number with an absolute value of 42 was divided by a number with an absolute value of 7 The quotient -6. Write two posibble numeric equations

Answer 1

-42/7 and 42/-7

Step-by-step explanation:

The absolute value of a number is represented by:

`|x|`

The lines represent absolute value of a number x, and what it does is that it makes everything into a positive number.

For example |-5|=5 and |5|=5, so we always have two options with an absolute value: that it comes from a negative number or that it comes from a positive number.

In this case we have that a number with an absolute value of 42 (it could be |-42|=42 or |42|=42) divided by a number with an absolute value of 7 (it could be |-7|=7 or |7|=7) the quotient is -6.

One possible numberic equation is:

`(-42)/(7)=-6`

Since this meets all the above conditions

Another possible numeric equation is:

`(42)/(-7)=-6`

Since this too meets all the above conditions.