The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 264 or -264?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -264?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-264| = ?
The absolute value of -264 is the distance between -264 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -264:
Since the distance between -264 and 0 on a number line is 264, we get the answer as follows:
|-264| = 264
Note that the absolute value of -264 can also be written as abs(-264) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -263
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