The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 294 or -294?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -294?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-294| = ?
The absolute value of -294 is the distance between -294 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -294:

Since the distance between -294 and 0 on a number line is 294, we get the answer as follows:
|-294| = 294
Note that the absolute value of -294 can also be written as abs(-294) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -293
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