The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 316 or -316?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -316?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-316| = ?
The absolute value of -316 is the distance between -316 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -316:
Since the distance between -316 and 0 on a number line is 316, we get the answer as follows:
|-316| = 316
Note that the absolute value of -316 can also be written as abs(-316) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -315
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