The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 212 or -212?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -212?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-212| = ?
The absolute value of -212 is the distance between -212 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -212:
Since the distance between -212 and 0 on a number line is 212, we get the answer as follows:
|-212| = 212
Note that the absolute value of -212 can also be written as abs(-212) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -211
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