The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 379 or -379?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -379?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-379| = ?
The absolute value of -379 is the distance between -379 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -379:
Since the distance between -379 and 0 on a number line is 379, we get the answer as follows:
|-379| = 379
Note that the absolute value of -379 can also be written as abs(-379) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -378
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