The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 72 or -72?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -72?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-72| = ?
The absolute value of -72 is the distance between -72 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -72:
Since the distance between -72 and 0 on a number line is 72, we get the answer as follows:
|-72| = 72
Note that the absolute value of -72 can also be written as abs(-72) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -71
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