The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 480 or -480?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -480?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-480| = ?
The absolute value of -480 is the distance between -480 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -480:
Since the distance between -480 and 0 on a number line is 480, we get the answer as follows:
|-480| = 480
Note that the absolute value of -480 can also be written as abs(-480) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -479
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