The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 455 or -455?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -455?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-455| = ?
The absolute value of -455 is the distance between -455 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -455:
Since the distance between -455 and 0 on a number line is 455, we get the answer as follows:
|-455| = 455
Note that the absolute value of -455 can also be written as abs(-455) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -454
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