The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 33 or -33?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -33?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-33| = ?
The absolute value of -33 is the distance between -33 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -33:
Since the distance between -33 and 0 on a number line is 33, we get the answer as follows:
|-33| = 33
Note that the absolute value of -33 can also be written as abs(-33) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -32
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