The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 318 or -318?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -318?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-318| = ?
The absolute value of -318 is the distance between -318 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -318:
Since the distance between -318 and 0 on a number line is 318, we get the answer as follows:
|-318| = 318
Note that the absolute value of -318 can also be written as abs(-318) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -317
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