The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 75 or -75?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -75?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-75| = ?
The absolute value of -75 is the distance between -75 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -75:
Since the distance between -75 and 0 on a number line is 75, we get the answer as follows:
|-75| = 75
Note that the absolute value of -75 can also be written as abs(-75) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -74
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