The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 386 or -386?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -386?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-386| = ?
The absolute value of -386 is the distance between -386 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -386:
Since the distance between -386 and 0 on a number line is 386, we get the answer as follows:
|-386| = 386
Note that the absolute value of -386 can also be written as abs(-386) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -385
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