The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 292 or -292?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -292?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-292| = ?
The absolute value of -292 is the distance between -292 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -292:
Since the distance between -292 and 0 on a number line is 292, we get the answer as follows:
|-292| = 292
Note that the absolute value of -292 can also be written as abs(-292) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -291
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