SOLUTION: What is plus or minus the absolute value of negative two?

Question 109360: What is
plus or minus the absolute value of negative two?
Answer by bucky(2189) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The problem is to find the absolute value of -2 which is
.
The absolute value signs just tell you to take the magnitude of the contents of the signs
and precede it with a plus sign. In this case the magnitude (or size) of the number in
the absolute value signs (without considering the minus sign) is just 2. Precede it by a
plus sign and you have:
.

.
So the answer is +2.
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Hope this helps you understand the meaning of absolute value a little more.
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