The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 259 or -259?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -259?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-259| = ?
The absolute value of -259 is the distance between -259 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -259:
Since the distance between -259 and 0 on a number line is 259, we get the answer as follows:
|-259| = 259
Note that the absolute value of -259 can also be written as abs(-259) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -258
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