The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 38 or -38?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -38?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-38| = ?
The absolute value of -38 is the distance between -38 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -38:
Since the distance between -38 and 0 on a number line is 38, we get the answer as follows:
|-38| = 38
Note that the absolute value of -38 can also be written as abs(-38) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -37
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