The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 22 or -22?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -22?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-22| = ?
The absolute value of -22 is the distance between -22 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -22:
Since the distance between -22 and 0 on a number line is 22, we get the answer as follows:
|-22| = 22
Note that the absolute value of -22 can also be written as abs(-22) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -21
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