The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 254 or -254?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -254?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-254| = ?
The absolute value of -254 is the distance between -254 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -254:
Since the distance between -254 and 0 on a number line is 254, we get the answer as follows:
|-254| = 254
Note that the absolute value of -254 can also be written as abs(-254) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -253
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