The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 476 or -476?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -476?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-476| = ?
The absolute value of -476 is the distance between -476 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -476:
Since the distance between -476 and 0 on a number line is 476, we get the answer as follows:
|-476| = 476
Note that the absolute value of -476 can also be written as abs(-476) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -475
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