The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 160 or -160?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -160?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-160| = ?
The absolute value of -160 is the distance between -160 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -160:
Since the distance between -160 and 0 on a number line is 160, we get the answer as follows:
|-160| = 160
Note that the absolute value of -160 can also be written as abs(-160) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -159
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