The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 96 or -96?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -96?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-96| = ?
The absolute value of -96 is the distance between -96 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -96:
Since the distance between -96 and 0 on a number line is 96, we get the answer as follows:
|-96| = 96
Note that the absolute value of -96 can also be written as abs(-96) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -95
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