The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 268 or -268?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -268?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-268| = ?
The absolute value of -268 is the distance between -268 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -268:
Since the distance between -268 and 0 on a number line is 268, we get the answer as follows:
|-268| = 268
Note that the absolute value of -268 can also be written as abs(-268) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -267
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