The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 360 or -360?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -360?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-360| = ?
The absolute value of -360 is the distance between -360 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -360:
Since the distance between -360 and 0 on a number line is 360, we get the answer as follows:
|-360| = 360
Note that the absolute value of -360 can also be written as abs(-360) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -359
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