The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 423 or -423?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -423?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-423| = ?
The absolute value of -423 is the distance between -423 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -423:
Since the distance between -423 and 0 on a number line is 423, we get the answer as follows:
|-423| = 423
Note that the absolute value of -423 can also be written as abs(-423) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -422
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