The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 437 or -437?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -437?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-437| = ?
The absolute value of -437 is the distance between -437 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -437:
Since the distance between -437 and 0 on a number line is 437, we get the answer as follows:
|-437| = 437
Note that the absolute value of -437 can also be written as abs(-437) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -436
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