The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 338 or -338?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -338?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-338| = ?
The absolute value of -338 is the distance between -338 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -338:
Since the distance between -338 and 0 on a number line is 338, we get the answer as follows:
|-338| = 338
Note that the absolute value of -338 can also be written as abs(-338) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -337
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