The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 235 or -235?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -235?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-235| = ?
The absolute value of -235 is the distance between -235 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -235:
Since the distance between -235 and 0 on a number line is 235, we get the answer as follows:
|-235| = 235
Note that the absolute value of -235 can also be written as abs(-235) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -234
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