The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 312 or -312?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -312?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-312| = ?
The absolute value of -312 is the distance between -312 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -312:
Since the distance between -312 and 0 on a number line is 312, we get the answer as follows:
|-312| = 312
Note that the absolute value of -312 can also be written as abs(-312) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -311
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