Absolute Value Review
This worksheet helps grade 8 students practice understanding and calculating absolute values of integers and rational numbers.
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Absolute Value Review
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show your work where necessary.
1. What is the absolute value of -15?
-15
15
0
Cannot be determined
2. Which of the following numbers has an absolute value greater than 8?
-7
8
-10
6
3. The absolute value of a number is its distance from on the number line.
4. The absolute value of any non-zero number is always .
5. Explain why |-5| and |5| both equal 5.
6. The absolute value of a negative number is always negative.
True
False
7. For any real number x, |x| ≥ 0.
True
False
8. Locate and mark the numbers -3 and 3 on the number line below. Then, show their absolute values by drawing arrows from 0.
9. Calculate the absolute value of each expression:
a) |-12| =
b) |7.5| =
c) -|-9| =
d) |4 - 9| =
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