The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 43 or -43?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -43?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-43| = ?
The absolute value of -43 is the distance between -43 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -43:
Since the distance between -43 and 0 on a number line is 43, we get the answer as follows:
|-43| = 43
Note that the absolute value of -43 can also be written as abs(-43) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -42
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