The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 434 or -434?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -434?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-434| = ?
The absolute value of -434 is the distance between -434 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -434:

Since the distance between -434 and 0 on a number line is 434, we get the answer as follows:
|-434| = 434
Note that the absolute value of -434 can also be written as abs(-434) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -433
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