The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 99 or -99?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -99?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-99| = ?
The absolute value of -99 is the distance between -99 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -99:
Since the distance between -99 and 0 on a number line is 99, we get the answer as follows:
|-99| = 99
Note that the absolute value of -99 can also be written as abs(-99) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -98
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