The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 88 or -88?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -88?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-88| = ?
The absolute value of -88 is the distance between -88 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -88:
Since the distance between -88 and 0 on a number line is 88, we get the answer as follows:
|-88| = 88
Note that the absolute value of -88 can also be written as abs(-88) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -87
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