ANSWER
-7
EXPLANATION
The only numbers that have a distance of 7 from zero on the real number line are -7 and 7.
-7 is to the left of zero while 7 is to the right of zero.
But this two numbers are all 7 units from zero.
In other words, the absolute values of this numbers is 7.
[tex] |x| = 7[/tex]
[tex]x = - 7 \: or \: 7[/tex]
Hence the number Renee wrote is -7