The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 266 or -266?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -266?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-266| = ?
The absolute value of -266 is the distance between -266 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -266:
Since the distance between -266 and 0 on a number line is 266, we get the answer as follows:
|-266| = 266
Note that the absolute value of -266 can also be written as abs(-266) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -265
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