The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 171 or -171?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -171?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-171| = ?
The absolute value of -171 is the distance between -171 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -171:
Since the distance between -171 and 0 on a number line is 171, we get the answer as follows:
|-171| = 171
Note that the absolute value of -171 can also be written as abs(-171) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -170
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