The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 25 or -25?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -25?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-25| = ?
The absolute value of -25 is the distance between -25 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -25:
Since the distance between -25 and 0 on a number line is 25, we get the answer as follows:
|-25| = 25
Note that the absolute value of -25 can also be written as abs(-25) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -24
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