The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 87 or -87?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -87?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-87| = ?
The absolute value of -87 is the distance between -87 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -87:
Since the distance between -87 and 0 on a number line is 87, we get the answer as follows:
|-87| = 87
Note that the absolute value of -87 can also be written as abs(-87) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -86
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