The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 447 or -447?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -447?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-447| = ?
The absolute value of -447 is the distance between -447 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -447:
Since the distance between -447 and 0 on a number line is 447, we get the answer as follows:
|-447| = 447
Note that the absolute value of -447 can also be written as abs(-447) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -446
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