The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 196 or -196?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -196?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-196| = ?
The absolute value of -196 is the distance between -196 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -196:
Since the distance between -196 and 0 on a number line is 196, we get the answer as follows:
|-196| = 196
Note that the absolute value of -196 can also be written as abs(-196) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -195
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