The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 391 or -391?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -391?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-391| = ?
The absolute value of -391 is the distance between -391 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -391:
Since the distance between -391 and 0 on a number line is 391, we get the answer as follows:
|-391| = 391
Note that the absolute value of -391 can also be written as abs(-391) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -390
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