The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 466 or -466?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -466?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-466| = ?
The absolute value of -466 is the distance between -466 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -466:
Since the distance between -466 and 0 on a number line is 466, we get the answer as follows:
|-466| = 466
Note that the absolute value of -466 can also be written as abs(-466) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -465
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