The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 203 or -203?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -203?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-203| = ?
The absolute value of -203 is the distance between -203 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -203:

Since the distance between -203 and 0 on a number line is 203, we get the answer as follows:
|-203| = 203
Note that the absolute value of -203 can also be written as abs(-203) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -202
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