The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 227 or -227?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -227?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-227| = ?
The absolute value of -227 is the distance between -227 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -227:
Since the distance between -227 and 0 on a number line is 227, we get the answer as follows:
|-227| = 227
Note that the absolute value of -227 can also be written as abs(-227) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -226
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