The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 34 or -34?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -34?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-34| = ?
The absolute value of -34 is the distance between -34 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -34:
Since the distance between -34 and 0 on a number line is 34, we get the answer as follows:
|-34| = 34
Note that the absolute value of -34 can also be written as abs(-34) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -33
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