The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 71 or -71?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -71?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-71| = ?
The absolute value of -71 is the distance between -71 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -71:
Since the distance between -71 and 0 on a number line is 71, we get the answer as follows:
|-71| = 71
Note that the absolute value of -71 can also be written as abs(-71) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -70
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