The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 285 or -285?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -285?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-285| = ?
The absolute value of -285 is the distance between -285 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -285:
Since the distance between -285 and 0 on a number line is 285, we get the answer as follows:
|-285| = 285
Note that the absolute value of -285 can also be written as abs(-285) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -284
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