The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 269 or -269?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -269?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-269| = ?
The absolute value of -269 is the distance between -269 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -269:
Since the distance between -269 and 0 on a number line is 269, we get the answer as follows:
|-269| = 269
Note that the absolute value of -269 can also be written as abs(-269) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -268
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