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I just thought of one; although there may be a better way to do this than Absolute Value. Suppose you were using a Spreadsheet like Excel to create a rough draft of your operating budget for the next year. You have four employees, one took a one year unpaid sabbatical. So you would have Column A with the name of your employees and Column B with their salaries this year. It would look something like this:
Kim Forbes$60,000.00Darryl Star$120,000.00Micheal Burros$34,000.00Aislynn Rodrigues-$52,000.00
If you did a normal Excel calculation you would get:
=SUM(B2:B5)
or
$162,000
That would really not help you with next years budgeting because you expect Aislynn to come back January 1st at her previous salary. That sum only shows you the operating budget, minus Aislynn's salary.
If you used Absolute Value, you would get:
=SUM(B2:B4,ABS(B5))
or
$266,000
That would be a true estimation of your salary costs next year.
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How can you use absolute value by using 200?
The absolute value of 200 is 200, and so is the absolute value of -200 .
What real world situations would you use absolute value this word in?
you go two ways up
Use absolute value in a sentence?
Absolute value is a number's distance from zero on the number line.
What do you get when you add a positive and negative number?
First, subtract the absolute values of the integers, then use the greater absolute value's sign.
When would you use place value in real life?
You use place value for all decimal numbers that contain fractional parts. You also use place value for all decimal integers other than those containing only one-digit.
