The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 46 or -46?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -46?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-46| = ?
The absolute value of -46 is the distance between -46 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -46:
Since the distance between -46 and 0 on a number line is 46, we get the answer as follows:
|-46| = 46
Note that the absolute value of -46 can also be written as abs(-46) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -45
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