The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 40 or -40?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -40?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-40| = ?
The absolute value of -40 is the distance between -40 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -40:
Since the distance between -40 and 0 on a number line is 40, we get the answer as follows:
|-40| = 40
Note that the absolute value of -40 can also be written as abs(-40) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -39
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