The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 389 or -389?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -389?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-389| = ?
The absolute value of -389 is the distance between -389 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -389:
Since the distance between -389 and 0 on a number line is 389, we get the answer as follows:
|-389| = 389
Note that the absolute value of -389 can also be written as abs(-389) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -388
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