The answer would be 7/9. If the spinner has 9 sections and you want to know the probability of NOT landing on a 1 or a 9, you would subtract 2 from 9 since there are 2 numbers and 9 total.
Absolute value means ignore negative signs, so #38 is asking is 282 greater or less than 279. it's greater. #39 is negative of |-10| the absolute value signs work as parentheses too, so it's -(10) so -10