The distance between any number, positive or negative, is called the "absolute value." This number is always positive, as it measures distance. For positive numbers, the absolute value is just the number. For negative numbers, drop the negative sign, and you have the absolute value. Alternative name: magnitude.
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The size of the number ... the distance between zero and the number on a number line ... and its sign, positive or negative.
It can never equal a ___________number?.................Negative
The distance between any two different points is always a positive quantity.
Sample Response: The absolute value of a number is the distance the number is from 0 on a number line. Since distance is never negative, absolute value is never negative.
No, think of absolute value as distance and you can't have a negative distance.
The easiest way to find the distance between any two numbers on a number line is the bigger number minus the smaller. Here 23 - (-7) = 23+7 = 30. Remember that minus a negative number is the same as plus that number.
Put all the numbers - zero, positive, negative - on a number line. Positive numbers to the left, negative numbers to the right. The difference between any two numbers is represented by the distance between them. Thus putting numbers on a number line is a great visualization tool.
Typically, negative numbers could be "measured" by the difference between the number and another number. The magnitude of a negative number is the distance from zero. Essentially, remove the minus sign, and you have the magnitude (also called absolute value) of the number.
No, it is not. Length is a metric that is defined as the absolute value of the distance between two points.