The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 230 or -230?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -230?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-230| = ?
The absolute value of -230 is the distance between -230 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -230:
Since the distance between -230 and 0 on a number line is 230, we get the answer as follows:
|-230| = 230
Note that the absolute value of -230 can also be written as abs(-230) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -229
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