The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 300 or -300?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -300?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-300| = ?
The absolute value of -300 is the distance between -300 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -300:
Since the distance between -300 and 0 on a number line is 300, we get the answer as follows:
|-300| = 300
Note that the absolute value of -300 can also be written as abs(-300) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -299
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