Absolute value is a number's distance away from 0. So, all answers are positive. -4/25 is 4/25's away from 0, so your answer is -4/25. To clarify: if you have the absolute value of ANY number, it will always be the positive version of itself.
So to solve this question, your goal is to find out how the way it is solved is not correct.
Your answer would be: On the third line, the student adds the 8 to both sides instead of subtracting. The way the initial equation is given is
y-(-8)=-6(x-2). After distributing the six, the student should make the 8 positive because subtracting a negative makes a positive. After solving, the equation should look like: y(+8)=-6x+12, so you would subtract the 8 from both sides instead of adding it, and solve from there.
Answer: a = 
We want to isolate a. Add both sides by 2. Then we get u + 2 = 2a. To get just a, we can divide by 2 to get (u+2)/2.
Hope that helped,
-sirswagger21
Answer:
positive
Step-by-step explanation:
(-a) (-a) (-a) (-a) = a
(-a)(-a) = a
a (-a) = -a
-a (-a) = a --> positive sign
