The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 478 or -478?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -478?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-478| = ?
The absolute value of -478 is the distance between -478 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -478:
Since the distance between -478 and 0 on a number line is 478, we get the answer as follows:
|-478| = 478
Note that the absolute value of -478 can also be written as abs(-478) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -477
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