The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 48 or -48?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -48?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-48| = ?
The absolute value of -48 is the distance between -48 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -48:
Since the distance between -48 and 0 on a number line is 48, we get the answer as follows:
|-48| = 48
Note that the absolute value of -48 can also be written as abs(-48) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -47
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