The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 313 or -313?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -313?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-313| = ?
The absolute value of -313 is the distance between -313 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -313:

Since the distance between -313 and 0 on a number line is 313, we get the answer as follows:
|-313| = 313
Note that the absolute value of -313 can also be written as abs(-313) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -312
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