The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 85 or -85?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -85?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-85| = ?
The absolute value of -85 is the distance between -85 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -85:
Since the distance between -85 and 0 on a number line is 85, we get the answer as follows:
|-85| = 85
Note that the absolute value of -85 can also be written as abs(-85) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -84
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