The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 420 or -420?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -420?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-420| = ?
The absolute value of -420 is the distance between -420 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -420:
Since the distance between -420 and 0 on a number line is 420, we get the answer as follows:
|-420| = 420
Note that the absolute value of -420 can also be written as abs(-420) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -419
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