The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 280 or -280?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -280?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-280| = ?
The absolute value of -280 is the distance between -280 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -280:
Since the distance between -280 and 0 on a number line is 280, we get the answer as follows:
|-280| = 280
Note that the absolute value of -280 can also be written as abs(-280) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -279
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