The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 425 or -425?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -425?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-425| = ?
The absolute value of -425 is the distance between -425 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -425:
Since the distance between -425 and 0 on a number line is 425, we get the answer as follows:
|-425| = 425
Note that the absolute value of -425 can also be written as abs(-425) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -424
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