The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 856 or -856?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -856?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-856| = ?
The absolute value of -856 is the distance between -856 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -856:
Since the distance between -856 and 0 on a number line is 856, we get the answer as follows:
|-856| = 856
Note that the absolute value of -856 can also be written as abs(-856) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -855
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