Question

what does absolute value mean

Answer 1

This is the distance of something from 0

Answer 2

|-5| is saying how many units if -5 from 0

Answer 3

and you would say 5
|-5|=5

Answer 4

since -5 is 5 units from 0

Answer 5

oooh i didnt know that

Answer 6

It is the actual value of the number without regard to its sign. (+) or (-).

Answer 7

who is ZhangYan

Answer 8

@kennedi99 ZhangYan is me....

Answer 9

Absolute value or modulus, as you may have heard, is the value of a no. sans its sign - rather like the way Myin described it above - its 'distance' from the '0' point.

absolute value is NEVER negative. it is just the numerical part - so basically you can say that it's positive - or rather non-negative (since '0' is neither -ve nor +ve) ALWAYS.

it's represented by the no. written between two vertical bars, like |-5| means modulus of '-5', which is 5.

|6| will be '6' itself.

(Do not confuse this with multiplicative inverse.)