The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 422 or -422?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -422?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-422| = ?
The absolute value of -422 is the distance between -422 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -422:
Since the distance between -422 and 0 on a number line is 422, we get the answer as follows:
|-422| = 422
Note that the absolute value of -422 can also be written as abs(-422) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -421
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