A) find the absolute values: |0|, |13 - 8|, and
|8 - 13|.
b) for which numbers a is - a positive? for which is
- |a| positive?
c) a student claims that a = -a is true only for
a = 0. explain why the student is wrong. what
misconception does the student have about -a?

Five dinosaurs go for a walk and come across some lovely chicken wings. their names are rexy, bronto, steggy, paly, and terry. there are exactly 5 dozen wings(equal enough for each dino to have a dozen right? ); however, terry is on a diet and he only eats 6 wings. if paly eats 2 more than terry, steggy eats 4 more than paly, and bronto and rexy eat the same amount because they are really hungry from not eating all day, how many chicken wings did each dino eat?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.

:i need some real : a store sells shirts to the public at one pricing scale and wholesale at another pricing scale. the tables below describe the cost, y, of x shirts. (after tables) how do the slopes of the lines created by each table compare? the slope of the public table is 3/4 of the slope of the wholesale table. the slope of the wholesale table is 3/4 of the slope of the public table. the slope of the public table is 12 times greater than the slope of the wholesale table. the slope of the wholesale table is 12 times greater than the slope of the public table.