The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 407 or -407?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -407?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-407| = ?
The absolute value of -407 is the distance between -407 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -407:
Since the distance between -407 and 0 on a number line is 407, we get the answer as follows:
|-407| = 407
Note that the absolute value of -407 can also be written as abs(-407) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -406
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