The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 214 or -214?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -214?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-214| = ?
The absolute value of -214 is the distance between -214 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -214:
Since the distance between -214 and 0 on a number line is 214, we get the answer as follows:
|-214| = 214
Note that the absolute value of -214 can also be written as abs(-214) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -213
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