The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 412 or -412?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -412?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-412| = ?
The absolute value of -412 is the distance between -412 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -412:
Since the distance between -412 and 0 on a number line is 412, we get the answer as follows:
|-412| = 412
Note that the absolute value of -412 can also be written as abs(-412) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -411
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