The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 17 or -17?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -17?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-17| = ?
The absolute value of -17 is the distance between -17 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -17:
Since the distance between -17 and 0 on a number line is 17, we get the answer as follows:
|-17| = 17
Note that the absolute value of -17 can also be written as abs(-17) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -16
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