there are 6 girls and 8 boys in Mr. Stevenson's class the ratio of girls to boys in the class can be expressed as the simplified
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<h3>Answer: 6</h3>
Mark the locations -6 and 0 on the number line. Note that going from -6 to 0, or vice versa, will take exactly 6 steps. Put another way, the distance between 0 and -6 is 6 units. Absolute value represents distance, so it is never negative.
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Effectively, all we're doing is removing the negative sign.