The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 16 or -16?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -16?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-16| = ?
The absolute value of -16 is the distance between -16 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -16:
Since the distance between -16 and 0 on a number line is 16, we get the answer as follows:
|-16| = 16
Note that the absolute value of -16 can also be written as abs(-16) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -15
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