The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 11 or -11?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -11?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-11| = ?
The absolute value of -11 is the distance between -11 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -11:
Since the distance between -11 and 0 on a number line is 11, we get the answer as follows:
|-11| = 11
Note that the absolute value of -11 can also be written as abs(-11) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -10
Use the knowledge you gained on this page to figure out the absolute value of the next number on our list.
|
|
