The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 199 or -199?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -199?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-199| = ?
The absolute value of -199 is the distance between -199 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -199:
Since the distance between -199 and 0 on a number line is 199, we get the answer as follows:
|-199| = 199
Note that the absolute value of -199 can also be written as abs(-199) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -198
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