The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 463 or -463?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -463?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-463| = ?
The absolute value of -463 is the distance between -463 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -463:
Since the distance between -463 and 0 on a number line is 463, we get the answer as follows:
|-463| = 463
Note that the absolute value of -463 can also be written as abs(-463) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -462
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