The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 168 or -168?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -168?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-168| = ?
The absolute value of -168 is the distance between -168 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -168:
Since the distance between -168 and 0 on a number line is 168, we get the answer as follows:
|-168| = 168
Note that the absolute value of -168 can also be written as abs(-168) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -167
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