The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 229 or -229?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -229?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-229| = ?
The absolute value of -229 is the distance between -229 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -229:
Since the distance between -229 and 0 on a number line is 229, we get the answer as follows:
|-229| = 229
Note that the absolute value of -229 can also be written as abs(-229) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -228
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