The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 55 or -55?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -55?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-55| = ?
The absolute value of -55 is the distance between -55 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -55:
Since the distance between -55 and 0 on a number line is 55, we get the answer as follows:
|-55| = 55
Note that the absolute value of -55 can also be written as abs(-55) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -54
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