The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 401 or -401?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -401?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-401| = ?
The absolute value of -401 is the distance between -401 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -401:
Since the distance between -401 and 0 on a number line is 401, we get the answer as follows:
|-401| = 401
Note that the absolute value of -401 can also be written as abs(-401) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -400
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