The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 288 or -288?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -288?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-288| = ?
The absolute value of -288 is the distance between -288 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -288:
Since the distance between -288 and 0 on a number line is 288, we get the answer as follows:
|-288| = 288
Note that the absolute value of -288 can also be written as abs(-288) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -287
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