The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 24 or -24?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -24?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-24| = ?
The absolute value of -24 is the distance between -24 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -24:
Since the distance between -24 and 0 on a number line is 24, we get the answer as follows:
|-24| = 24
Note that the absolute value of -24 can also be written as abs(-24) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -23
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