How do you order the numbers |-5|, 6, -6, -|4|, -2 from least to greatest?

1 Answer
May 8, 2018

Keep track of where the | | are.

Explanation:

It all depends on that is being absolute. For example;

|-5|=5 this is because your basically taking the -5 and turning that into an absolute value.

-|4|=-4 this is because you are taking the absolute value of the 4 and then multiplying it by -1 (since the -1 is outside the | |)

So, your answer should be:
-6,-|4|,-2,|-5|,6