Absolute Value and Distance

Look at the number line below. Drag the slider to change the value of a. The distance of a from 0 on the number line will be shown, as well as the absolute value of a. Answer the following questions. [br]1. As a gets larger in the positive direction, what happens to the distance from 0? To the absolute value?[br]2. As a gets more negative, what happens to the distance from 0? To the absolute value?[br]3. Is there a value of a that creates a negative absolute value? [br]4. How are absolute value and distance from 0 related? [br]5. Give an example of two different numbers that have the same absolute value. Explain why they have the same absolute value.
Absolute Value and Distance

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