The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 402 or -402?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -402?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-402| = ?
The absolute value of -402 is the distance between -402 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -402:
Since the distance between -402 and 0 on a number line is 402, we get the answer as follows:
|-402| = 402
Note that the absolute value of -402 can also be written as abs(-402) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -401
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