The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 162 or -162?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -162?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-162| = ?
The absolute value of -162 is the distance between -162 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -162:
Since the distance between -162 and 0 on a number line is 162, we get the answer as follows:
|-162| = 162
Note that the absolute value of -162 can also be written as abs(-162) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -161
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