The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 344 or -344?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -344?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-344| = ?
The absolute value of -344 is the distance between -344 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -344:

Since the distance between -344 and 0 on a number line is 344, we get the answer as follows:
|-344| = 344
Note that the absolute value of -344 can also be written as abs(-344) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -343
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