The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 42 or -42?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -42?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-42| = ?
The absolute value of -42 is the distance between -42 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -42:
Since the distance between -42 and 0 on a number line is 42, we get the answer as follows:
|-42| = 42
Note that the absolute value of -42 can also be written as abs(-42) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -41
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