2006-06-09 09:27:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
2/7, or 0.28571...
2006-06-09 09:30:32 · answer #1 · answered by Hillbillies are... 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To find the absolute value of a number, just make that number positive if it isn't already positive. In the case of -2/7, since it is negative, make it positive. The answer would be 2/7.
2006-06-09 13:56:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/7
2006-06-09 10:44:52 · answer #3 · answered by aquamarine21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/7
2006-06-09 09:30:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/7
2006-06-09 09:30:20 · answer #5 · answered by bequalming 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The absolute value (or "magnitude") of a number is its distance from zero on the number line. In simple cases, you can think of it as the "positive version" of that number. The absolute value of a positive number is the number itself, while the absolute value of a negative number is the opposite of that number.
So | -2/7 | = 2/7. Expressing it as a decimal approximation isn't necessary, and your teacher might dock you points. :)
At least one responder conflated absolute value with "reciprocal" (the reciprocal of | -2/7 | is 7/2, or 3.5), and another claimed that the absolute value of a positive number is a negative number, which is not true.
2006-06-09 09:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by Jay H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/7 because absolute value is the distance from 0 on the number line (in simple words negative becomes positive and positive stays positive, That's it)
2006-06-09 10:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by knightofsod 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
|-2/7| = 2/7
Because you cannot take the absolute value for a negative #, so you make it as postitive.
2006-06-09 10:19:12 · answer #8 · answered by kelly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
+2/7
all you have to do to find out the absolute value is change the negative sign to a positive sign ot the other way around
2006-06-09 09:31:15 · answer #9 · answered by DRUMMERS RULE! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/7
Absolute value can be thought of as the distance a certain number is from zero on a number line. It is always a positive number:
I x I = x if x is greater than or equal to zero
I x I = -x if x is less than zero
2006-06-09 10:18:07 · answer #10 · answered by jimbob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/7
The absolute value of x is the positive distance between x and 0.
If x is greater than or equal to zero, the absolute value of x is x.
If x is less than zero, the absolute value of x is -x.
The absolute value of any real number is either positive or zero.
2006-06-09 09:40:26 · answer #11 · answered by anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋