document.write( "Question 1145288: Order the numbers from least to greatest
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Algebra.Com's Answer #766499 by Edwin McCravy(20055) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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Maybe you don't understand absolute value. If the number between the two\r\n" );
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document.write( "the bars is negative, erase the bars AND the negative sign, making it a\r\n" );
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document.write( "Three of them -1, 7, and -7 are already simplified as a positive or negative\r\n" );
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document.write( "Only two of them, |-6| and |8|, need to be simplified. So we simplify them:\r\n" );
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document.write( "|-6|=6,\r\n" );
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document.write( "|8|=8\r\n" );
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document.write( "We draw a number line, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "-9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we put them all on the number line\r\n" );
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document.write( "-9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9\r\n" );
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document.write( "      -7                -1                  |-6| 7 |8|                        \r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we list them as they appear left to right\r\n" );
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document.write( "-7, -1, |-6|, 7, |8|\r\n" );
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