The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 345 or -345?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -345?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-345| = ?
The absolute value of -345 is the distance between -345 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -345:
Since the distance between -345 and 0 on a number line is 345, we get the answer as follows:
|-345| = 345
Note that the absolute value of -345 can also be written as abs(-345) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -344
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