The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 83 or -83?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -83?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-83| = ?
The absolute value of -83 is the distance between -83 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -83:
Since the distance between -83 and 0 on a number line is 83, we get the answer as follows:
|-83| = 83
Note that the absolute value of -83 can also be written as abs(-83) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -82
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