The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 246 or -246?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -246?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-246| = ?
The absolute value of -246 is the distance between -246 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -246:
Since the distance between -246 and 0 on a number line is 246, we get the answer as follows:
|-246| = 246
Note that the absolute value of -246 can also be written as abs(-246) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -245
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