The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 242 or -242?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -242?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-242| = ?
The absolute value of -242 is the distance between -242 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -242:
Since the distance between -242 and 0 on a number line is 242, we get the answer as follows:
|-242| = 242
Note that the absolute value of -242 can also be written as abs(-242) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -241
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