The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 299 or -299?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -299?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-299| = ?
The absolute value of -299 is the distance between -299 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -299:
Since the distance between -299 and 0 on a number line is 299, we get the answer as follows:
|-299| = 299
Note that the absolute value of -299 can also be written as abs(-299) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -298
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