The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 419 or -419?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -419?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-419| = ?
The absolute value of -419 is the distance between -419 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -419:
Since the distance between -419 and 0 on a number line is 419, we get the answer as follows:
|-419| = 419
Note that the absolute value of -419 can also be written as abs(-419) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -418
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