The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 439 or -439?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -439?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-439| = ?
The absolute value of -439 is the distance between -439 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -439:
Since the distance between -439 and 0 on a number line is 439, we get the answer as follows:
|-439| = 439
Note that the absolute value of -439 can also be written as abs(-439) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -438
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