The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 165 or -165?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -165?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-165| = ?
The absolute value of -165 is the distance between -165 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -165:
Since the distance between -165 and 0 on a number line is 165, we get the answer as follows:
|-165| = 165
Note that the absolute value of -165 can also be written as abs(-165) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -164
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