Explain why the absolute value of a number is never a negative number.

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Explain why the absolute value of a number is never a negative number.

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The absolute value of a number is the distance the number is from 0 on a number line. Since distance is never negative, absolute value is never negative.

Terry Spotts answered Mar 2, 2021

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