The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 103 or -103?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -103?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-103| = ?
The absolute value of -103 is the distance between -103 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -103:
Since the distance between -103 and 0 on a number line is 103, we get the answer as follows:
|-103| = 103
Note that the absolute value of -103 can also be written as abs(-103) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -102
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