The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 118 or -118?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -118?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-118| = ?
The absolute value of -118 is the distance between -118 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -118:
Since the distance between -118 and 0 on a number line is 118, we get the answer as follows:
|-118| = 118
Note that the absolute value of -118 can also be written as abs(-118) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -117
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