The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 86 or -86?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -86?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-86| = ?
The absolute value of -86 is the distance between -86 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -86:
Since the distance between -86 and 0 on a number line is 86, we get the answer as follows:
|-86| = 86
Note that the absolute value of -86 can also be written as abs(-86) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -85
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