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Learn about absolute value and how it relates to negative and positive numbers in this lessons with example problems. Here you will learn that a negative number is the left of zero on a number line. The absolute value is just the distance of any number to zero on the number line.

So, in order to find the absolute value, just retain the number of the integer and discard the sign.