The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 270 or -270?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -270?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-270| = ?
The absolute value of -270 is the distance between -270 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -270:
Since the distance between -270 and 0 on a number line is 270, we get the answer as follows:
|-270| = 270
Note that the absolute value of -270 can also be written as abs(-270) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -269
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