The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 488 or -488?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -488?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-488| = ?
The absolute value of -488 is the distance between -488 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -488:
Since the distance between -488 and 0 on a number line is 488, we get the answer as follows:
|-488| = 488
Note that the absolute value of -488 can also be written as abs(-488) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -487
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