The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 388 or -388?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -388?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-388| = ?
The absolute value of -388 is the distance between -388 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -388:
Since the distance between -388 and 0 on a number line is 388, we get the answer as follows:
|-388| = 388
Note that the absolute value of -388 can also be written as abs(-388) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -387
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