The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 428 or -428?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -428?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-428| = ?
The absolute value of -428 is the distance between -428 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -428:
Since the distance between -428 and 0 on a number line is 428, we get the answer as follows:
|-428| = 428
Note that the absolute value of -428 can also be written as abs(-428) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -427
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