The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 482 or -482?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -482?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-482| = ?
The absolute value of -482 is the distance between -482 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -482:
Since the distance between -482 and 0 on a number line is 482, we get the answer as follows:
|-482| = 482
Note that the absolute value of -482 can also be written as abs(-482) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -481
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