That's because absolute means 'always positive' so it could never be a negative.
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iT IS NEVER NEGATIVE, IT IS ALWAYS POSITIVE
An absolute value can never be a negative. An absolute value is just the distance the # is from the zero...so again for it to be negative thats not possible
it is the distance from 0 on a number line. the absolute value of something is never negative
If it had a sign it wouldn't be an absolute value, which is neither positive nor negative, merely absolute.Note that the absolute value of a number is non-negative by definition.For x < 0, |x| = -x (which is positive)For x ≥ 0, |x| = x (which is never negative)
Because an absolute value can never be negative.