The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 461 or -461?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -461?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-461| = ?
The absolute value of -461 is the distance between -461 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -461:
Since the distance between -461 and 0 on a number line is 461, we get the answer as follows:
|-461| = 461
Note that the absolute value of -461 can also be written as abs(-461) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -460
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