The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 223 or -223?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -223?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-223| = ?
The absolute value of -223 is the distance between -223 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -223:
Since the distance between -223 and 0 on a number line is 223, we get the answer as follows:
|-223| = 223
Note that the absolute value of -223 can also be written as abs(-223) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -222
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