The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 272 or -272?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -272?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-272| = ?
The absolute value of -272 is the distance between -272 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -272:
Since the distance between -272 and 0 on a number line is 272, we get the answer as follows:
|-272| = 272
Note that the absolute value of -272 can also be written as abs(-272) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -271
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