3 years ago

What happens to a negative number when you take its absolutr value

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Ahat [919]3 years ago

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It loses its negative sign.

Stolb23 [73]3 years ago

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It becomes a positive number. A number's absolute value is the number of spaces it is away from 0 on a number line. If you're on negative 5, it is 5 spaces away from 0, so it's absolute value is 5.

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