The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 36 or -36?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -36?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-36| = ?
The absolute value of -36 is the distance between -36 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -36:
Since the distance between -36 and 0 on a number line is 36, we get the answer as follows:
|-36| = 36
Note that the absolute value of -36 can also be written as abs(-36) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -35
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