The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 372 or -372?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -372?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-372| = ?
The absolute value of -372 is the distance between -372 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -372:
Since the distance between -372 and 0 on a number line is 372, we get the answer as follows:
|-372| = 372
Note that the absolute value of -372 can also be written as abs(-372) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -371
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