The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 28 or -28?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -28?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-28| = ?
The absolute value of -28 is the distance between -28 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -28:
Since the distance between -28 and 0 on a number line is 28, we get the answer as follows:
|-28| = 28
Note that the absolute value of -28 can also be written as abs(-28) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -27
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