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JCE (Botswana) Integers — practice questions

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What is a negative number?Read the answer and worked solution →Which everyday measurement is given as an example described by negative numbers?Read the answer and worked solution →Two numbers sit the same distance from zero but on opposite sides. What are they called?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the opposite of 7?Read the answer and worked solution →How is the absolute value of a number defined?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the absolute value of negative 44?Read the answer and worked solution →Can the absolute value of a number ever be negative?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the notation with a minus sign written before a letter mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can the counter model for addition be extended to multiplication of integers?Read the answer and worked solution →On a number line, where does a negative number lie in relation to zero?Read the answer and worked solution →The temperature is negative 20 degrees. How does that compare with 0 degrees?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the opposite of negative 2?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these numbers has the largest absolute value?Read the answer and worked solution →Which number is its own opposite?Read the answer and worked solution →Reading a number line from left to right, what happens to the values?Read the answer and worked solution →Above or below zero?Read the answer and worked solution →Match the absolute valueRead the answer and worked solution →Match the oppositeRead the answer and worked solution →Integer words bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Less or greater than zero?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is a negative number?

  1. A number that is less than zero
  2. A number that is greater than zero
  3. A number that is exactly zero
  4. A number that has no whole part
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Correct answer: A. A number that is less than zero

1. Every number sits somewhere on the number line relative to zero. 2. A negative number is one that is less than zero. 3. On the number line it therefore lies to the left of zero. 4. Temperatures below freezing are the everyday example of such numbers. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Integers", section Locate Positive and Negative Numbers on the Number Line_

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Which everyday measurement is given as an example described by negative numbers?

  1. Distances measured along a road
  2. Masses measured on a balance
  3. Temperatures below zero degrees
  4. Times measured with a stopwatch
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Correct answer: C. Temperatures below zero degrees

1. A negative number is any number below zero. 2. Very cold temperatures are measured in degrees below zero. 3. So those temperatures are naturally described by negative numbers. 4. Distance, mass and time on a stopwatch are never measured below zero. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Integers", section Locate Positive and Negative Numbers on the Number Line_

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Two numbers sit the same distance from zero but on opposite sides. What are they called?

  1. Factors of each other
  2. Opposites of each other
  3. Multiples of each other
  4. Reciprocals of each other
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Correct answer: B. Opposites of each other

1. Take any number and measure its distance from zero on the number line. 2. The number the same distance away but on the other side of zero is its opposite. 3. So 2 and negative 2 are opposites, and 3 and negative 3 are opposites. 4. A reciprocal is a different idea, about multiplying to give one. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Integers", section Opposite Notation_

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