The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 6979 or -6979?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -6979?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-6979| = ?
The absolute value of -6979 is the distance between -6979 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -6979:
Since the distance between -6979 and 0 on a number line is 6979, we get the answer as follows:
|-6979| = 6979
Note that the absolute value of -6979 can also be written as abs(-6979) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -6978
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