Answer:
Greatest to Least Magnitude: [tex]|-20|, \ |12.3|, \ |8|, \ |-6|, \ |-4|, \ |2\frac{3}{10}|[/tex]
Step-by-step explanation:
Each of the values has "absolute value" sign. What does absolute value do?
|a| = a
That means, no matter what number is inside the absolute value sign, whether negative or positive, the answer will always be positive.
Now, last number is mixed fraction, we will convert to decimal for simplicity of comparing.
First Number: |-4| = 4
Second Number: |-6| = 6
Third Number: |8| = 8
Fourth Number: |12.3| = 12.3
Fifth Number: |-20| = 20
Sixth Number:
3/10 = 0.3,
so 2 3/10th = 2.3
Ordering, we have:
Fifth number, fourth, third, second, first, sixth
The correct ordering will be:
[tex]|-20|, \ |12.3|, \ |8|, \ |-6|, \ |-4|, \ |2\frac{3}{10}|[/tex]
