The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 483 or -483?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -483?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-483| = ?
The absolute value of -483 is the distance between -483 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -483:
Since the distance between -483 and 0 on a number line is 483, we get the answer as follows:
|-483| = 483
Note that the absolute value of -483 can also be written as abs(-483) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -482
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