The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 218 or -218?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -218?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-218| = ?
The absolute value of -218 is the distance between -218 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -218:
Since the distance between -218 and 0 on a number line is 218, we get the answer as follows:
|-218| = 218
Note that the absolute value of -218 can also be written as abs(-218) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -217
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