The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 282 or -282?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -282?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-282| = ?
The absolute value of -282 is the distance between -282 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -282:
Since the distance between -282 and 0 on a number line is 282, we get the answer as follows:
|-282| = 282
Note that the absolute value of -282 can also be written as abs(-282) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -281
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