The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 26 or -26?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -26?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-26| = ?
The absolute value of -26 is the distance between -26 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -26:
Since the distance between -26 and 0 on a number line is 26, we get the answer as follows:
|-26| = 26
Note that the absolute value of -26 can also be written as abs(-26) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -25
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