The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 415 or -415?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -415?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-415| = ?
The absolute value of -415 is the distance between -415 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -415:
Since the distance between -415 and 0 on a number line is 415, we get the answer as follows:
|-415| = 415
Note that the absolute value of -415 can also be written as abs(-415) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -414
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