Let R be a commutative ring with identity. Badawi (Bull Aust Math Soc 75(3), 417–429, 2007) introduced a generalization of prime ideals called 2-absorbing ideals, and this idea is further generalized in a paper by Anderson and Badawi (Commun Algebra 39(5), 1646–1672, 2011) to a concept called n-absorbing ideals. A proper ideal I of R is said to be an n-absorbing ideal if whenever x_1ldots x_{n+1}in I for x_1,ldots ,x_{n+1}in R then there are n of the x_i’s whose product is in I. It was conjectured by Anderson and Badawi (Commun Algebra 39(5), 1646–1672, 2011) that if I is an n-absorbing ideal of R then I is strongly n-absorbing (Conjecture 1) and Rad(I)^nsubseteq I (Conjecture 2). In Cahen et al. (in: Fontana et al., Commutative rings. Integer-valued polynomials, and polynomial function, Springer, New York, 2014, Problem 30c), it was conjectured also that I[X] is an n-absorbing ideal of the polynomial ring R[X] for each n-absorbing ideal of the ring R (Conjecture 3). In this paper we give an answer to (Conjecture 2) for n=3, n=4 and n=5 and we prove that (Conjecture 1) and (Conjecture 3) hold in various classes of rings.