The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 50 or -50?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -50?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-50| = ?
The absolute value of -50 is the distance between -50 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -50:
Since the distance between -50 and 0 on a number line is 50, we get the answer as follows:
|-50| = 50
Note that the absolute value of -50 can also be written as abs(-50) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -49
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