The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 131 or -131?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -131?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-131| = ?
The absolute value of -131 is the distance between -131 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -131:
Since the distance between -131 and 0 on a number line is 131, we get the answer as follows:
|-131| = 131
Note that the absolute value of -131 can also be written as abs(-131) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -130
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