The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 271 or -271?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -271?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-271| = ?
The absolute value of -271 is the distance between -271 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -271:
Since the distance between -271 and 0 on a number line is 271, we get the answer as follows:
|-271| = 271
Note that the absolute value of -271 can also be written as abs(-271) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -270
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