The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 479 or -479?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -479?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-479| = ?
The absolute value of -479 is the distance between -479 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -479:
Since the distance between -479 and 0 on a number line is 479, we get the answer as follows:
|-479| = 479
Note that the absolute value of -479 can also be written as abs(-479) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -478
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