The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 136 or -136?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -136?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-136| = ?
The absolute value of -136 is the distance between -136 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -136:
Since the distance between -136 and 0 on a number line is 136, we get the answer as follows:
|-136| = 136
Note that the absolute value of -136 can also be written as abs(-136) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -135
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