Absolute Value Worksheet
A worksheet for Grade 9 students to practice understanding and calculating absolute values.
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Absolute Value Practice
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Read each question carefully and provide the best answer. Show your work where applicable.
1. What does the absolute value of a number represent?
Its value squared
Its distance from zero on a number line
Its opposite
Its reciprocal
2. Which of the following expressions has the largest value?
|-10|
|-5| + |3|
|8 - 2|
|-4| * |2|
3. The absolute value of -15 is .
4. If |x| = 7, then x can be 7 or .
5. The distance between -3 and 5 on a number line is units.
6. Evaluate the expression: |-12| + |6 - 10|
7. A submarine is at a depth of -250 feet relative to sea level. What is its absolute depth?
8. The absolute value of any non-zero number is always positive.
True
False
9. |-8| < |5|
True
False
10. Plot the numbers -4, 0, and 3 on the number line below. Then, indicate the absolute value of each number.
|-4| =
|0| =
|3| =