The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 395 or -395?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -395?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-395| = ?
The absolute value of -395 is the distance between -395 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -395:
Since the distance between -395 and 0 on a number line is 395, we get the answer as follows:
|-395| = 395
Note that the absolute value of -395 can also be written as abs(-395) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -394
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