The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 200 or -200?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -200?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-200| = ?
The absolute value of -200 is the distance between -200 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -200:
Since the distance between -200 and 0 on a number line is 200, we get the answer as follows:
|-200| = 200
Note that the absolute value of -200 can also be written as abs(-200) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -199
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