The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 429 or -429?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -429?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-429| = ?
The absolute value of -429 is the distance between -429 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -429:
Since the distance between -429 and 0 on a number line is 429, we get the answer as follows:
|-429| = 429
Note that the absolute value of -429 can also be written as abs(-429) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -428
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