The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 201 or -201?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -201?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-201| = ?
The absolute value of -201 is the distance between -201 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -201:

Since the distance between -201 and 0 on a number line is 201, we get the answer as follows:
|-201| = 201
Note that the absolute value of -201 can also be written as abs(-201) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -200
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