Official GRE Quant practice book: Arithmetic multiple choice: #15, Pg.49

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|z| <= 1 thus z is between 1 and -1.

Now, put z = -1 and you can eliminate most of the options

With z = -1, I’m getting A as the only correct answer. But what if z = -0.5? More than just A is correct. What am I missing?

A will be correct in all cases

It finally clicked, thanks!