The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 458 or -458?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -458?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-458| = ?
The absolute value of -458 is the distance between -458 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -458:
Since the distance between -458 and 0 on a number line is 458, we get the answer as follows:
|-458| = 458
Note that the absolute value of -458 can also be written as abs(-458) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -457
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