The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 453 or -453?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -453?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-453| = ?
The absolute value of -453 is the distance between -453 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -453:
Since the distance between -453 and 0 on a number line is 453, we get the answer as follows:
|-453| = 453
Note that the absolute value of -453 can also be written as abs(-453) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -452
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