The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 385 or -385?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -385?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-385| = ?
The absolute value of -385 is the distance between -385 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -385:
Since the distance between -385 and 0 on a number line is 385, we get the answer as follows:
|-385| = 385
Note that the absolute value of -385 can also be written as abs(-385) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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