The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 260 or -260?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -260?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-260| = ?
The absolute value of -260 is the distance between -260 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -260:
Since the distance between -260 and 0 on a number line is 260, we get the answer as follows:
|-260| = 260
Note that the absolute value of -260 can also be written as abs(-260) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -259
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