The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 265 or -265?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -265?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-265| = ?
The absolute value of -265 is the distance between -265 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -265:
Since the distance between -265 and 0 on a number line is 265, we get the answer as follows:
|-265| = 265
Note that the absolute value of -265 can also be written as abs(-265) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -264
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