The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 474 or -474?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -474?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-474| = ?
The absolute value of -474 is the distance between -474 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -474:
Since the distance between -474 and 0 on a number line is 474, we get the answer as follows:
|-474| = 474
Note that the absolute value of -474 can also be written as abs(-474) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -473
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