The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 470 or -470?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -470?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-470| = ?
The absolute value of -470 is the distance between -470 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -470:
Since the distance between -470 and 0 on a number line is 470, we get the answer as follows:
|-470| = 470
Note that the absolute value of -470 can also be written as abs(-470) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -469
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