The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 186 or -186?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -186?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-186| = ?
The absolute value of -186 is the distance between -186 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -186:
Since the distance between -186 and 0 on a number line is 186, we get the answer as follows:
|-186| = 186
Note that the absolute value of -186 can also be written as abs(-186) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -185
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