The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 5 or -5?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -5?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-5| = ?
The absolute value of -5 is the distance between -5 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -5:
Since the distance between -5 and 0 on a number line is 5, we get the answer as follows:
|-5| = 5
Note that the absolute value of -5 can also be written as abs(-5) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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