The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 440 or -440?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -440?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-440| = ?
The absolute value of -440 is the distance between -440 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -440:
Since the distance between -440 and 0 on a number line is 440, we get the answer as follows:
|-440| = 440
Note that the absolute value of -440 can also be written as abs(-440) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -439
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