The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 392 or -392?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -392?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-392| = ?
The absolute value of -392 is the distance between -392 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -392:
Since the distance between -392 and 0 on a number line is 392, we get the answer as follows:
|-392| = 392
Note that the absolute value of -392 can also be written as abs(-392) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -391
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