The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 90 or -90?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -90?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-90| = ?
The absolute value of -90 is the distance between -90 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -90:
Since the distance between -90 and 0 on a number line is 90, we get the answer as follows:
|-90| = 90
Note that the absolute value of -90 can also be written as abs(-90) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -89
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