The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 166 or -166?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -166?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-166| = ?
The absolute value of -166 is the distance between -166 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -166:
Since the distance between -166 and 0 on a number line is 166, we get the answer as follows:
|-166| = 166
Note that the absolute value of -166 can also be written as abs(-166) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -165
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