## rainbow_rocks03 one year ago PLZ help...NO DIRECT ANSWERS! Mr.Mathis owes $269 on an auto loan.Write an integer to represent this situation. • This Question is Closed 1. rainbow_rocks03 |dw:1441822441225:dw| 2. rainbow_rocks03 @MMAguy @kropot72 3. hwyl here's the concept: your money - any loan loans are debt to be paid off and in mathematical terms it is something you subtract out of funds and using distributive properties we can generally assume the following $$-(l) \rightarrow -\color{red}{1} (l) = -l$$ so that means any values that are regarded as loans will be a negative value 4. rainbow_rocks03 So my answer would be B ? 5. hwyl for example, you need to pay for a tuition for school for a particular semester and it will cost you$5,000.00 if you did not have any money, you will borrow from banks or lender and that amount is something you pay off in the future. So in the future when you already have your own money, you will have to pay your debt (loan) and it will be something that you will subtract out of your own money.

6. hwyl

what do these | | mean in math?

7. rainbow_rocks03

IDK

8. hwyl

haha okay that is our symbol for absolute value. when something is enclosed in | | it means that it is always positive. Here are examples: $$|-x| = x$$ $$|-5| = 5$$ $$|5 | = 5$$ so knowing that loans are negative, we cannot use any value that is enclosed in | | because that would be it will no longer be a negative value, just as I have shown you in the examples

9. rainbow_rocks03

I think my answer would be either B or C.

10. rainbow_rocks03

@hwyl

11. rainbow_rocks03

So my answer would be B or C @hwyl ?

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