The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 106 or -106?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -106?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-106| = ?
The absolute value of -106 is the distance between -106 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -106:
Since the distance between -106 and 0 on a number line is 106, we get the answer as follows:
|-106| = 106
Note that the absolute value of -106 can also be written as abs(-106) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -105
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