What is the value of | –29 |?

A.
29

B.
–29

Question

What is the value of | –29 |?
  
 
 

 
 

  

  A. 
  29   
   

 
 

  

  B. 
 –29

anonymous · Answer

Is It A?

solomonzelman · Answer

What is the distance from -29 to 0, on the number line?

(Dirgerard the direction, and tell me, how many units do you have to move on the number line to go from -29 to 0?)

solomonzelman · Answer

((Yes, the answer is A))

bamboo888 · Answer

The two '|' means the distance from zero so it doesn't matter if it's a negative of positive, the answer will always be a positive because it can't be negative something from zero. So  A.

anonymous · Answer

A, 29 is the answer. |-29| = 29 because it is the modulus

mathmale · Answer

The absolute value operator, which you see here in this problem, always produces a POSITIVE result, even if what's between the absolute value markers |     |     is negative.

Thus, |-29|= +29.  The absolute value markers also indicate "length."