How do you find absolute value?

Answer 1

ok so its like when a number is negative it automatically becomes positive. and when a number is positive..its still positive. heres an ex. say you have |-5| so thats = 5
when you add its |-9|+5= 14 BUT it could also be -14

Answer 2

To find the absolute value of a number, just take the distance from 0, or the number itself (without the negative sign, if it has one)

To solve an equation for absolute value, first solve everything around the absolute value. Then solve the equation by making the thing on the other side of the absolute value both positive, and negative (and take of the absolute value sign).

For example, if it was |x-1|/4=1, you'd first make it into |x-1|=4.

For the next step, you'd make 4 both positive and negative, and solve for both equations, so,
x-1=4, or 5
and x-1=-4 or -3. So 5 and -3 would be the 2 answers.

Answer 3

In math, the absolute value is simply the distance of a number away from 0.

So the absolute value of -3 is 3. The absolute value of 3 is 3.

Answer 4

an absolute value is just a term for saying how far a number if from zero. Like -2 has the absolute value of 2 because it is two from zero. draw a numer line if you need to. Remember absolute value is always positive.

Answer 5

There are different was to find absolute value give us the question you are trying to solve that would be easier to answer

Answer 6

Well if the question is like l-2l +3, the answer would be 5 because whatever is in between the two lines becomes positive. It doesn't matter whether it says negative or positive as long as it is in between the lines it is positive. I hope that helped a little!

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