The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 81 or -81?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -81?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-81| = ?
The absolute value of -81 is the distance between -81 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -81:
Since the distance between -81 and 0 on a number line is 81, we get the answer as follows:
|-81| = 81
Note that the absolute value of -81 can also be written as abs(-81) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -80
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