The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 124 or -124?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -124?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-124| = ?
The absolute value of -124 is the distance between -124 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -124:
Since the distance between -124 and 0 on a number line is 124, we get the answer as follows:
|-124| = 124
Note that the absolute value of -124 can also be written as abs(-124) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -123
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