The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 857 or -857?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -857?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-857| = ?
The absolute value of -857 is the distance between -857 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -857:
Since the distance between -857 and 0 on a number line is 857, we get the answer as follows:
|-857| = 857
Note that the absolute value of -857 can also be written as abs(-857) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -856
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