The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 102 or -102?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -102?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-102| = ?
The absolute value of -102 is the distance between -102 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -102:
Since the distance between -102 and 0 on a number line is 102, we get the answer as follows:
|-102| = 102
Note that the absolute value of -102 can also be written as abs(-102) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -101
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