The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 417 or -417?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -417?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-417| = ?
The absolute value of -417 is the distance between -417 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -417:
Since the distance between -417 and 0 on a number line is 417, we get the answer as follows:
|-417| = 417
Note that the absolute value of -417 can also be written as abs(-417) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -416
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