The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 49 or -49?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -49?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-49| = ?
The absolute value of -49 is the distance between -49 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -49:
Since the distance between -49 and 0 on a number line is 49, we get the answer as follows:
|-49| = 49
Note that the absolute value of -49 can also be written as abs(-49) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -48
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