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Describe the error.What. should the answer have been .How did they get the wrong answer.

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Sagot :

The absolute value of a number, is defined as the distance from such number to the zero.

You can notice in the given image that the distnace from -8 to 0 is 8 units. Then, you have:

|-8| = 8

the absolute valuo of any positive or negative number, is a positive number.

The error is that |-8| is not equal to -8. It is equal to 8.