The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 481 or -481?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -481?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-481| = ?
The absolute value of -481 is the distance between -481 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -481:
Since the distance between -481 and 0 on a number line is 481, we get the answer as follows:
|-481| = 481
Note that the absolute value of -481 can also be written as abs(-481) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -480
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