The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 459 or -459?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -459?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-459| = ?
The absolute value of -459 is the distance between -459 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -459:
Since the distance between -459 and 0 on a number line is 459, we get the answer as follows:
|-459| = 459
Note that the absolute value of -459 can also be written as abs(-459) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -458
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