The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 41 or -41?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -41?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-41| = ?
The absolute value of -41 is the distance between -41 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -41:
Since the distance between -41 and 0 on a number line is 41, we get the answer as follows:
|-41| = 41
Note that the absolute value of -41 can also be written as abs(-41) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -40
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