The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 277 or -277?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -277?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-277| = ?
The absolute value of -277 is the distance between -277 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -277:
Since the distance between -277 and 0 on a number line is 277, we get the answer as follows:
|-277| = 277
Note that the absolute value of -277 can also be written as abs(-277) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -276
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