The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 263 or -263?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -263?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-263| = ?
The absolute value of -263 is the distance between -263 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -263:
Since the distance between -263 and 0 on a number line is 263, we get the answer as follows:
|-263| = 263
Note that the absolute value of -263 can also be written as abs(-263) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -262
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