The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 465 or -465?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -465?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-465| = ?
The absolute value of -465 is the distance between -465 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -465:
Since the distance between -465 and 0 on a number line is 465, we get the answer as follows:
|-465| = 465
Note that the absolute value of -465 can also be written as abs(-465) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -464
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