The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 397 or -397?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -397?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-397| = ?
The absolute value of -397 is the distance between -397 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -397:
Since the distance between -397 and 0 on a number line is 397, we get the answer as follows:
|-397| = 397
Note that the absolute value of -397 can also be written as abs(-397) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -396
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