The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 169 or -169?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -169?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-169| = ?
The absolute value of -169 is the distance between -169 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -169:
Since the distance between -169 and 0 on a number line is 169, we get the answer as follows:
|-169| = 169
Note that the absolute value of -169 can also be written as abs(-169) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -168
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