The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 319 or -319?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -319?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-319| = ?
The absolute value of -319 is the distance between -319 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -319:
Since the distance between -319 and 0 on a number line is 319, we get the answer as follows:
|-319| = 319
Note that the absolute value of -319 can also be written as abs(-319) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -318
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