SOLUTION: What is |-5|

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Question 12171: What is |-5|
Answer by elima(1433) About Me  (Show Source):
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|-5|
Is all that dirty, scary absolute value||means,is how many digits away from 0 is -5. So on the number line we start at zero and count to -5. How many times did you count? It should have been 5.
so |-5|=5
Don't let those signs||scare you.
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