The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 486 or -486?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -486?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-486| = ?
The absolute value of -486 is the distance between -486 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -486:
Since the distance between -486 and 0 on a number line is 486, we get the answer as follows:
|-486| = 486
Note that the absolute value of -486 can also be written as abs(-486) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -485
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