The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 257 or -257?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -257?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-257| = ?
The absolute value of -257 is the distance between -257 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -257:
Since the distance between -257 and 0 on a number line is 257, we get the answer as follows:
|-257| = 257
Note that the absolute value of -257 can also be written as abs(-257) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -256
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