The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 305 or -305?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -305?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-305| = ?
The absolute value of -305 is the distance between -305 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -305:
Since the distance between -305 and 0 on a number line is 305, we get the answer as follows:
|-305| = 305
Note that the absolute value of -305 can also be written as abs(-305) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -304
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