The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 27 or -27?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -27?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-27| = ?
The absolute value of -27 is the distance between -27 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -27:
Since the distance between -27 and 0 on a number line is 27, we get the answer as follows:
|-27| = 27
Note that the absolute value of -27 can also be written as abs(-27) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -26
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