The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 66 or -66?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -66?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-66| = ?
The absolute value of -66 is the distance between -66 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -66:
Since the distance between -66 and 0 on a number line is 66, we get the answer as follows:
|-66| = 66
Note that the absolute value of -66 can also be written as abs(-66) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -65
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