The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 430 or -430?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -430?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-430| = ?
The absolute value of -430 is the distance between -430 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -430:
Since the distance between -430 and 0 on a number line is 430, we get the answer as follows:
|-430| = 430
Note that the absolute value of -430 can also be written as abs(-430) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -429
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