The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 283 or -283?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -283?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-283| = ?
The absolute value of -283 is the distance between -283 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -283:
Since the distance between -283 and 0 on a number line is 283, we get the answer as follows:
|-283| = 283
Note that the absolute value of -283 can also be written as abs(-283) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -282
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