The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 487 or -487?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -487?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-487| = ?
The absolute value of -487 is the distance between -487 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -487:
Since the distance between -487 and 0 on a number line is 487, we get the answer as follows:
|-487| = 487
Note that the absolute value of -487 can also be written as abs(-487) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -486
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