The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 424 or -424?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -424?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-424| = ?
The absolute value of -424 is the distance between -424 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -424:
Since the distance between -424 and 0 on a number line is 424, we get the answer as follows:
|-424| = 424
Note that the absolute value of -424 can also be written as abs(-424) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -423
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