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No, think of absolute value as distance and you can't have a negative distance.

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Q: Why can't an absolute value be a negative number?
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Why cant the adsolute value of a number be negtive?

That is because of the way the absolute value is defined. The absolute value of a positive number is positive, the absolute value of a negative number is also positive. The absolute value of zero is zero. Even in the complex numbers, the absolute value is defined in such a way that it is a real and positive number.


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Is the square root of -25 irrational or complex?

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