How do you simplify $abs(–20)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-21T14:02:23

Simplifies to $20$ .

Absolute value " $|x|$ " can mean "How far away is this number from zero?"

So $-20$ is $20$ away from $0$ .

You can also just think of it as just making negative numbers positive.

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