The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 101 or -101?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -101?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-101| = ?
The absolute value of -101 is the distance between -101 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -101:
Since the distance between -101 and 0 on a number line is 101, we get the answer as follows:
|-101| = 101
Note that the absolute value of -101 can also be written as abs(-101) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -100
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