The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 462 or -462?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -462?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-462| = ?
The absolute value of -462 is the distance between -462 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -462:
Since the distance between -462 and 0 on a number line is 462, we get the answer as follows:
|-462| = 462
Note that the absolute value of -462 can also be written as abs(-462) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -461
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