The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 253 or -253?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -253?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-253| = ?
The absolute value of -253 is the distance between -253 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -253:
Since the distance between -253 and 0 on a number line is 253, we get the answer as follows:
|-253| = 253
Note that the absolute value of -253 can also be written as abs(-253) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -252
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