The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 70 or -70?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -70?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-70| = ?
The absolute value of -70 is the distance between -70 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -70:
Since the distance between -70 and 0 on a number line is 70, we get the answer as follows:
|-70| = 70
Note that the absolute value of -70 can also be written as abs(-70) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -69
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