The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 321 or -321?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -321?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-321| = ?
The absolute value of -321 is the distance between -321 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -321:
Since the distance between -321 and 0 on a number line is 321, we get the answer as follows:
|-321| = 321
Note that the absolute value of -321 can also be written as abs(-321) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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