The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 343 or -343?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -343?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-343| = ?
The absolute value of -343 is the distance between -343 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -343:

Since the distance between -343 and 0 on a number line is 343, we get the answer as follows:
|-343| = 343
Note that the absolute value of -343 can also be written as abs(-343) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -342
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