The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 436 or -436?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -436?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-436| = ?
The absolute value of -436 is the distance between -436 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -436:
Since the distance between -436 and 0 on a number line is 436, we get the answer as follows:
|-436| = 436
Note that the absolute value of -436 can also be written as abs(-436) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -435
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