Directions:Write the absolute value statement and the negative or positive number for the situation. The problem is in the bottom.
1. You entered an office building on the second floor and took the elevator to the fourteen floor.
To write the absolute value statement and determine the positive or negative number for this situation, follow these steps:
1. Identify the starting and ending floors mentioned in the problem:
- Starting floor: 2nd floor
- Ending floor: 14th floor
2. Subtract the starting floor from the ending floor:
14 - 2 = 12
3. Write the absolute value statement. The absolute value of a number is the distance of that number from zero on a number line. In this case, the absolute value represents the number of floors traveled in the elevator:
|12|
4. Determine if the number is positive or negative. Since we are going up from the 2nd floor to the 14th floor, the number is positive.
Therefore, the absolute value statement is |12| and the number is positive.