The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 187 or -187?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -187?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-187| = ?
The absolute value of -187 is the distance between -187 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -187:
Since the distance between -187 and 0 on a number line is 187, we get the answer as follows:
|-187| = 187
Note that the absolute value of -187 can also be written as abs(-187) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -186
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