The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 293 or -293?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -293?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-293| = ?
The absolute value of -293 is the distance between -293 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -293:
Since the distance between -293 and 0 on a number line is 293, we get the answer as follows:
|-293| = 293
Note that the absolute value of -293 can also be written as abs(-293) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -292
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