The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 243 or -243?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -243?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-243| = ?
The absolute value of -243 is the distance between -243 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -243:
Since the distance between -243 and 0 on a number line is 243, we get the answer as follows:
|-243| = 243
Note that the absolute value of -243 can also be written as abs(-243) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -242
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