The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 35 or -35?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -35?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-35| = ?
The absolute value of -35 is the distance between -35 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -35:
Since the distance between -35 and 0 on a number line is 35, we get the answer as follows:
|-35| = 35
Note that the absolute value of -35 can also be written as abs(-35) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -34
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