The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 64 or -64?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -64?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-64| = ?
The absolute value of -64 is the distance between -64 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -64:
Since the distance between -64 and 0 on a number line is 64, we get the answer as follows:
|-64| = 64
Note that the absolute value of -64 can also be written as abs(-64) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -63
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