The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 126 or -126?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -126?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-126| = ?
The absolute value of -126 is the distance between -126 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -126:
Since the distance between -126 and 0 on a number line is 126, we get the answer as follows:
|-126| = 126
Note that the absolute value of -126 can also be written as abs(-126) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -125
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