The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 117 or -117?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -117?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-117| = ?
The absolute value of -117 is the distance between -117 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -117:
Since the distance between -117 and 0 on a number line is 117, we get the answer as follows:
|-117| = 117
Note that the absolute value of -117 can also be written as abs(-117) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -116
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