The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 32 or -32?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -32?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-32| = ?
The absolute value of -32 is the distance between -32 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -32:
Since the distance between -32 and 0 on a number line is 32, we get the answer as follows:
|-32| = 32
Note that the absolute value of -32 can also be written as abs(-32) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -31
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