What is a absolute value?

Question

What is a absolute value?

Answer 1

The value of the number, regardless of negative or positive value.

The absolute value of -18 would be: 18.

The absolute value of 18 would be: 18.

Answer 2

The distance a number is from 0.  It is represented by these lines | |

It can never be negative because a distance can only be positive

Answer 3

The distance a number is from zero on the number line.

Answer 4

how far a number is from zero

so lets just say you have -53

the absolute value of that number is just 53

i think of it as just taking off the negative sign off the number (if there is one) and thats your absolute value!

Answer 5

it is the distance of a number on a number line, example: the absolute value of 3 is -3

Answer 6

the opposite the the # in the box.{-8...= 8.pretend the paranthesis is the chek mark box

Answer 7

Is how far a number is from zero