The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 362 or -362?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -362?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-362| = ?
The absolute value of -362 is the distance between -362 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -362:
Since the distance between -362 and 0 on a number line is 362, we get the answer as follows:
|-362| = 362
Note that the absolute value of -362 can also be written as abs(-362) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -361
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