The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 390 or -390?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -390?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-390| = ?
The absolute value of -390 is the distance between -390 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -390:
Since the distance between -390 and 0 on a number line is 390, we get the answer as follows:
|-390| = 390
Note that the absolute value of -390 can also be written as abs(-390) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -389
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