The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 442 or -442?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -442?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-442| = ?
The absolute value of -442 is the distance between -442 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -442:
Since the distance between -442 and 0 on a number line is 442, we get the answer as follows:
|-442| = 442
Note that the absolute value of -442 can also be written as abs(-442) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -441
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