SOLUTION: how to evluate the expression |-9.6| (absolute value).

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Question 359: how to evluate the expression |-9.6| (absolute value).
Answer by ashipm01(26)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Absolute values are just the distance from 0 on the number line. So with this problem:

|-9.6|

it is 9.6 units away from zero which means that the absolute value of -9.6 = 9.6. So the answer is 9.6.

Alex

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