The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 125 or -125?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -125?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-125| = ?
The absolute value of -125 is the distance between -125 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -125:
Since the distance between -125 and 0 on a number line is 125, we get the answer as follows:
|-125| = 125
Note that the absolute value of -125 can also be written as abs(-125) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -124
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