The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 62 or -62?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -62?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-62| = ?
The absolute value of -62 is the distance between -62 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -62:
Since the distance between -62 and 0 on a number line is 62, we get the answer as follows:
|-62| = 62
Note that the absolute value of -62 can also be written as abs(-62) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -61
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