The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 3 or -3?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -3?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-3| = ?
The absolute value of -3 is the distance between -3 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -3:
Since the distance between -3 and 0 on a number line is 3, we get the answer as follows:
|-3| = 3
Note that the absolute value of -3 can also be written as abs(-3) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -2
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