The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 175 or -175?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -175?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-175| = ?
The absolute value of -175 is the distance between -175 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -175:
Since the distance between -175 and 0 on a number line is 175, we get the answer as follows:
|-175| = 175
Note that the absolute value of -175 can also be written as abs(-175) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -174
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