The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 233 or -233?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -233?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-233| = ?
The absolute value of -233 is the distance between -233 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -233:
Since the distance between -233 and 0 on a number line is 233, we get the answer as follows:
|-233| = 233
Note that the absolute value of -233 can also be written as abs(-233) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -232
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