The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 248 or -248?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -248?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-248| = ?
The absolute value of -248 is the distance between -248 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -248:
Since the distance between -248 and 0 on a number line is 248, we get the answer as follows:
|-248| = 248
Note that the absolute value of -248 can also be written as abs(-248) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -247
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