The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 472 or -472?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -472?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-472| = ?
The absolute value of -472 is the distance between -472 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -472:
Since the distance between -472 and 0 on a number line is 472, we get the answer as follows:
|-472| = 472
Note that the absolute value of -472 can also be written as abs(-472) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -471
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