The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 129 or -129?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -129?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-129| = ?
The absolute value of -129 is the distance between -129 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -129:
Since the distance between -129 and 0 on a number line is 129, we get the answer as follows:
|-129| = 129
Note that the absolute value of -129 can also be written as abs(-129) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -128
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