The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 138 or -138?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -138?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-138| = ?
The absolute value of -138 is the distance between -138 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -138:
Since the distance between -138 and 0 on a number line is 138, we get the answer as follows:
|-138| = 138
Note that the absolute value of -138 can also be written as abs(-138) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -137
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