If you look up the definition of absolute in the dictionary, you’ll find several definitions. All of them reference totality, completeness, and having no limitations or dependence on anything else. The definition of the absolute value of a number is its magnitude, or distance, from zero. How do these two definitions connect?

Suppose you are going to graph the data in the table. minutes temperature (°c) 0 -2 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 -4 6 2 7 -3 what data should be represented on each axis, and what should the axis increments be? x-axis: minutes in increments of 1; y-axis: temperature in increments of 5 x-axis: temperature in increments of 5; y-axis: minutes in increments of 1 x-axis: minutes in increments of 1; y-axis: temperature in increments of 1 x-axis: temperature in increments of 1; y-axis: minutes in increments of 5