The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 122 or -122?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -122?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-122| = ?
The absolute value of -122 is the distance between -122 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -122:
Since the distance between -122 and 0 on a number line is 122, we get the answer as follows:
|-122| = 122
Note that the absolute value of -122 can also be written as abs(-122) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -121
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