The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 314 or -314?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -314?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-314| = ?
The absolute value of -314 is the distance between -314 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -314:
Since the distance between -314 and 0 on a number line is 314, we get the answer as follows:
|-314| = 314
Note that the absolute value of -314 can also be written as abs(-314) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -313
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