The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 381 or -381?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -381?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-381| = ?
The absolute value of -381 is the distance between -381 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -381:
Since the distance between -381 and 0 on a number line is 381, we get the answer as follows:
|-381| = 381
Note that the absolute value of -381 can also be written as abs(-381) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -380
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