The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 244 or -244?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -244?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-244| = ?
The absolute value of -244 is the distance between -244 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -244:
Since the distance between -244 and 0 on a number line is 244, we get the answer as follows:
|-244| = 244
Note that the absolute value of -244 can also be written as abs(-244) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -243
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