The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 475 or -475?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -475?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-475| = ?
The absolute value of -475 is the distance between -475 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -475:
Since the distance between -475 and 0 on a number line is 475, we get the answer as follows:
|-475| = 475
Note that the absolute value of -475 can also be written as abs(-475) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -474
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