The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 405 or -405?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -405?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-405| = ?
The absolute value of -405 is the distance between -405 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -405:
Since the distance between -405 and 0 on a number line is 405, we get the answer as follows:
|-405| = 405
Note that the absolute value of -405 can also be written as abs(-405) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -404
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