The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 54 or -54?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -54?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-54| = ?
The absolute value of -54 is the distance between -54 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -54:
Since the distance between -54 and 0 on a number line is 54, we get the answer as follows:
|-54| = 54
Note that the absolute value of -54 can also be written as abs(-54) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -53
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