The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 73 or -73?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -73?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-73| = ?
The absolute value of -73 is the distance between -73 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -73:
Since the distance between -73 and 0 on a number line is 73, we get the answer as follows:
|-73| = 73
Note that the absolute value of -73 can also be written as abs(-73) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -72
Use the knowledge you gained on this page to figure out the absolute value of the next number on our list.
|
|
