The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 163 or -163?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -163?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-163| = ?
The absolute value of -163 is the distance between -163 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -163:
Since the distance between -163 and 0 on a number line is 163, we get the answer as follows:
|-163| = 163
Note that the absolute value of -163 can also be written as abs(-163) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -162
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