9)order from least to greatest: |3|,|-5|,-8.56,-8,|-8| 11)which has more prime factors: 50 or 49? explain how you know

In most of the numbers, there are | |. That is the sign for absolute value. Absolute value is the distance from a number to 0. The sign doesn't matter.

Example: |-6| = 6 The distance between -6 and 0 is 6.

|3| = 3

|-5| = 5

-8.56 = -8.56

-8 = -8

|-8| = 8

Now order them. Remember that negative numbers are first. The greater negative numbers come first.

First list the factors of both numbers:

49 - 1, 7, 49

50 - 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50

The bold numbers are the prime factors. Prime numbers are numbers that have 2 factors - 1 and itself. 1 is NOT a prime number.

49 has 1 prime factor and 50 has 2 prime factors.

50 has more prime factors