The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 278 or -278?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -278?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-278| = ?
The absolute value of -278 is the distance between -278 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -278:
Since the distance between -278 and 0 on a number line is 278, we get the answer as follows:
|-278| = 278
Note that the absolute value of -278 can also be written as abs(-278) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -277
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