The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 222 or -222?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -222?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-222| = ?
The absolute value of -222 is the distance between -222 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -222:
Since the distance between -222 and 0 on a number line is 222, we get the answer as follows:
|-222| = 222
Note that the absolute value of -222 can also be written as abs(-222) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -221
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