The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 123 or -123?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -123?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-123| = ?
The absolute value of -123 is the distance between -123 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -123:
Since the distance between -123 and 0 on a number line is 123, we get the answer as follows:
|-123| = 123
Note that the absolute value of -123 can also be written as abs(-123) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -122
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