The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 57 or -57?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -57?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-57| = ?
The absolute value of -57 is the distance between -57 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -57:
Since the distance between -57 and 0 on a number line is 57, we get the answer as follows:
|-57| = 57
Note that the absolute value of -57 can also be written as abs(-57) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -56
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