The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 408 or -408?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -408?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-408| = ?
The absolute value of -408 is the distance between -408 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -408:
Since the distance between -408 and 0 on a number line is 408, we get the answer as follows:
|-408| = 408
Note that the absolute value of -408 can also be written as abs(-408) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -407
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