The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 184 or -184?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -184?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-184| = ?
The absolute value of -184 is the distance between -184 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -184:
Since the distance between -184 and 0 on a number line is 184, we get the answer as follows:
|-184| = 184
Note that the absolute value of -184 can also be written as abs(-184) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -183
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