The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 262 or -262?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -262?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-262| = ?
The absolute value of -262 is the distance between -262 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -262:
Since the distance between -262 and 0 on a number line is 262, we get the answer as follows:
|-262| = 262
Note that the absolute value of -262 can also be written as abs(-262) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -261
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