The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 98 or -98?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -98?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-98| = ?
The absolute value of -98 is the distance between -98 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -98:
Since the distance between -98 and 0 on a number line is 98, we get the answer as follows:
|-98| = 98
Note that the absolute value of -98 can also be written as abs(-98) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -97
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