Question

|60| ___ |-60| is it greater than > equal to = or less than

Answer 1

Answer:

$|60| = | - 60|$

Step-by-step explanation:

They are equal. When the negative sign is inside the box the absolute value is positive, when the negative sign is outside the box THEN it is negative.

Answer 2

Answer: equal to

Step-by-step explanation: Absolute value means distance from zero on a number line. To represent the absolute value of a number, we use a vertical bar on either side of the number like we see in this problem.

So for the absolute value of 60, we know that 60 is 60 units from zero on a number line which means that the absolute value of 60 is just 60.

For the absolute value of -60, we know that -60 is also 60 units from zero on the number line so the absolute value of -60 is also 60.

Now we know that the absolute value of -60 is 60 and the absolute value of 60 is also 60. Since 60 is the same as 60, it means that 60 is equal to 60.

Another way of thinking about absolute value is that no matter what number you have inside the absolute value, your result will always be positive except for 0 which has an absolute value of 0.

In other words, the absolute value of any number is the positive version of that number. Again, not including zero.