The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 477 or -477?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -477?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-477| = ?
The absolute value of -477 is the distance between -477 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -477:
Since the distance between -477 and 0 on a number line is 477, we get the answer as follows:
|-477| = 477
Note that the absolute value of -477 can also be written as abs(-477) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -476
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