The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 291 or -291?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -291?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-291| = ?
The absolute value of -291 is the distance between -291 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -291:
Since the distance between -291 and 0 on a number line is 291, we get the answer as follows:
|-291| = 291
Note that the absolute value of -291 can also be written as abs(-291) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -290
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