The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 457 or -457?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -457?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-457| = ?
The absolute value of -457 is the distance between -457 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -457:
Since the distance between -457 and 0 on a number line is 457, we get the answer as follows:
|-457| = 457
Note that the absolute value of -457 can also be written as abs(-457) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -456
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