The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 59 or -59?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -59?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-59| = ?
The absolute value of -59 is the distance between -59 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -59:
Since the distance between -59 and 0 on a number line is 59, we get the answer as follows:
|-59| = 59
Note that the absolute value of -59 can also be written as abs(-59) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -58
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