The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 2318 or -2318?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -2318?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-2318| = ?
The absolute value of -2318 is the distance between -2318 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -2318:
Since the distance between -2318 and 0 on a number line is 2318, we get the answer as follows:
|-2318| = 2318
Note that the absolute value of -2318 can also be written as abs(-2318) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -2317
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