The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 432 or -432?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -432?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-432| = ?
The absolute value of -432 is the distance between -432 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -432:
Since the distance between -432 and 0 on a number line is 432, we get the answer as follows:
|-432| = 432
Note that the absolute value of -432 can also be written as abs(-432) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -431
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