The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 19 or -19?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -19?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-19| = ?
The absolute value of -19 is the distance between -19 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -19:
Since the distance between -19 and 0 on a number line is 19, we get the answer as follows:
|-19| = 19
Note that the absolute value of -19 can also be written as abs(-19) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -18
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