The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 290 or -290?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -290?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-290| = ?
The absolute value of -290 is the distance between -290 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -290:
Since the distance between -290 and 0 on a number line is 290, we get the answer as follows:
|-290| = 290
Note that the absolute value of -290 can also be written as abs(-290) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -289
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