The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 220 or -220?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -220?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-220| = ?
The absolute value of -220 is the distance between -220 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -220:
Since the distance between -220 and 0 on a number line is 220, we get the answer as follows:
|-220| = 220
Note that the absolute value of -220 can also be written as abs(-220) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -219
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