The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 51 or -51?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -51?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-51| = ?
The absolute value of -51 is the distance between -51 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -51:
Since the distance between -51 and 0 on a number line is 51, we get the answer as follows:
|-51| = 51
Note that the absolute value of -51 can also be written as abs(-51) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -50
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