The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 6978 or -6978?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -6978?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-6978| = ?
The absolute value of -6978 is the distance between -6978 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -6978:
Since the distance between -6978 and 0 on a number line is 6978, we get the answer as follows:
|-6978| = 6978
Note that the absolute value of -6978 can also be written as abs(-6978) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -6977
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