The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 30 or -30?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -30?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-30| = ?
The absolute value of -30 is the distance between -30 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -30:
Since the distance between -30 and 0 on a number line is 30, we get the answer as follows:
|-30| = 30
Note that the absolute value of -30 can also be written as abs(-30) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -29
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