The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 63 or -63?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -63?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-63| = ?
The absolute value of -63 is the distance between -63 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -63:
Since the distance between -63 and 0 on a number line is 63, we get the answer as follows:
|-63| = 63
Note that the absolute value of -63 can also be written as abs(-63) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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