The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 460 or -460?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -460?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-460| = ?
The absolute value of -460 is the distance between -460 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -460:
Since the distance between -460 and 0 on a number line is 460, we get the answer as follows:
|-460| = 460
Note that the absolute value of -460 can also be written as abs(-460) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -459
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