The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 232 or -232?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -232?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-232| = ?
The absolute value of -232 is the distance between -232 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -232:
Since the distance between -232 and 0 on a number line is 232, we get the answer as follows:
|-232| = 232
Note that the absolute value of -232 can also be written as abs(-232) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -231
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