The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 383 or -383?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -383?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-383| = ?
The absolute value of -383 is the distance between -383 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -383:
Since the distance between -383 and 0 on a number line is 383, we get the answer as follows:
|-383| = 383
Note that the absolute value of -383 can also be written as abs(-383) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -382
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