The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 347 or -347?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -347?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-347| = ?
The absolute value of -347 is the distance between -347 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -347:
Since the distance between -347 and 0 on a number line is 347, we get the answer as follows:
|-347| = 347
Note that the absolute value of -347 can also be written as abs(-347) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -346
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