The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 120 or -120?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -120?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-120| = ?
The absolute value of -120 is the distance between -120 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -120:
Since the distance between -120 and 0 on a number line is 120, we get the answer as follows:
|-120| = 120
Note that the absolute value of -120 can also be written as abs(-120) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -119
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