The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 68 or -68?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -68?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-68| = ?
The absolute value of -68 is the distance between -68 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -68:
Since the distance between -68 and 0 on a number line is 68, we get the answer as follows:
|-68| = 68
Note that the absolute value of -68 can also be written as abs(-68) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -67
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