The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 14 or -14?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -14?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-14| = ?
The absolute value of -14 is the distance between -14 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -14:
Since the distance between -14 and 0 on a number line is 14, we get the answer as follows:
|-14| = 14
Note that the absolute value of -14 can also be written as abs(-14) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -13
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