The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 82 or -82?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -82?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-82| = ?
The absolute value of -82 is the distance between -82 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -82:
Since the distance between -82 and 0 on a number line is 82, we get the answer as follows:
|-82| = 82
Note that the absolute value of -82 can also be written as abs(-82) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -81
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