The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 371 or -371?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -371?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-371| = ?
The absolute value of -371 is the distance between -371 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -371:
Since the distance between -371 and 0 on a number line is 371, we get the answer as follows:
|-371| = 371
Note that the absolute value of -371 can also be written as abs(-371) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -370
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