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4. Terminating and Repeating Decimals
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Exercise 12 Page 383

Absolute value will always be non-negative.

2.3

Practice makes perfect

Let's begin by recalling the definition of the absolute value.

Absolute Value of a Number

It is a distance between the number and 0 on a number line.

In other words, the absolute value of a number is the non-negative value of that number. The absolute value of a number a can be written as |a|. |a| = a and |- a| = a Let's find the absolute value of the given number. |-2.3| = 2.3