Additive Inverses and Absolute Values

Key Questions

  • What is the additive inverse property?

    Additive Inverse Property

    For all element #a#, there is a unique element #-a# such that

    #a+(-a)=0#

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    Wataru · 2 · Nov 6 2014
  • What are absolute values?

    You can think of the absolute value sign as a negative sign eraser. It does not do anything to a nonnegative number but turns a negative number into the positive number having the same magnitude; for example, #|2|=2# and #|-3|=3#.

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    Wataru · 3 · Oct 25 2014

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Properties of Real Numbers