The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 205 or -205?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -205?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-205| = ?
The absolute value of -205 is the distance between -205 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -205:
Since the distance between -205 and 0 on a number line is 205, we get the answer as follows:
|-205| = 205
Note that the absolute value of -205 can also be written as abs(-205) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -204
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