The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 359 or -359?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -359?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-359| = ?
The absolute value of -359 is the distance between -359 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -359:
Since the distance between -359 and 0 on a number line is 359, we get the answer as follows:
|-359| = 359
Note that the absolute value of -359 can also be written as abs(-359) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -358
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