Absolute Value | Understanding absolute Value | Explaination | Examples
"absolute value" means to remove any negative sign in front of a number, and to think of all numbers as positive (or zero).
To show that we want the absolute value of something, we put "|" marks either side (they are called "bars" and are found on the right side of a keyboard), like these examples:
|−5| = 5 |7| = 7
Sometimes absolute value is also written as "abs()", so abs(−1) = 1 is the same as |−1| = 1
More Examples
Here are some more examples of how to handle absolute values:
|−3×6| = 18
Because −3×6 = −18, and |−18| = 18
−|5−2| = −3
Because 5−2 = 3 and then the first minus gets us −3
−|2−5| = −3
Because 2−5 = −3 , |−3| = 3, and then the first minus gets us −3
−|−12| = −12
Because |−12| = 12 and then the first minus gets us −12
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