The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 20 or -20?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -20?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-20| = ?
The absolute value of -20 is the distance between -20 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -20:
Since the distance between -20 and 0 on a number line is 20, we get the answer as follows:
|-20| = 20
Note that the absolute value of -20 can also be written as abs(-20) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -19
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