The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 315 or -315?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -315?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-315| = ?
The absolute value of -315 is the distance between -315 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -315:

Since the distance between -315 and 0 on a number line is 315, we get the answer as follows:
|-315| = 315
Note that the absolute value of -315 can also be written as abs(-315) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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