The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 56 or -56?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -56?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-56| = ?
The absolute value of -56 is the distance between -56 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -56:
Since the distance between -56 and 0 on a number line is 56, we get the answer as follows:
|-56| = 56
Note that the absolute value of -56 can also be written as abs(-56) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -55
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