The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 77 or -77?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -77?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-77| = ?
The absolute value of -77 is the distance between -77 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -77:
Since the distance between -77 and 0 on a number line is 77, we get the answer as follows:
|-77| = 77
Note that the absolute value of -77 can also be written as abs(-77) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -76
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