The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 60 or -60?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -60?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-60| = ?
The absolute value of -60 is the distance between -60 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -60:
Since the distance between -60 and 0 on a number line is 60, we get the answer as follows:
|-60| = 60
Note that the absolute value of -60 can also be written as abs(-60) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -59
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