The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 23 or -23?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -23?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-23| = ?
The absolute value of -23 is the distance between -23 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -23:
Since the distance between -23 and 0 on a number line is 23, we get the answer as follows:
|-23| = 23
Note that the absolute value of -23 can also be written as abs(-23) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -22
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