The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 231 or -231?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -231?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-231| = ?
The absolute value of -231 is the distance between -231 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -231:
Since the distance between -231 and 0 on a number line is 231, we get the answer as follows:
|-231| = 231
Note that the absolute value of -231 can also be written as abs(-231) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -230
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