What is |–12|? _____

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What is |–12|?

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this is 12.
Absolute valsue is the distance between a number and 0.
so the distance between -12 and 0 is 12.

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the absolute value of -12 is positive 12 because absolute bars turn all negatives into a positive

Busse answered Dec 19, 2017

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