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Luba_88 [7]
2 years ago
5

Explain the difference in meaning between 1-3 and -3

Mathematics
1 answer:
sveticcg [70]2 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The difference in meaning is that

-3 is a signed value. It lies to the left of zero

+3 is also a signed value, and since it is positive, it lies to the right of zero

|-3| is just the physical distance (left or right) of -3 from zero. Since we live in a physical world, all distances are positive, so its signed value is 3.

Since +3 is also 3 units from zero, |+3| = 3

|-3| = |+3| = 3 since both are three units away from zero.

So, when using absolute values as numbers, rather than distances,

|x| = x if x is not negative

|x| = -x if x is negative

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