The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 858 or -858?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -858?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-858| = ?
The absolute value of -858 is the distance between -858 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -858:
Since the distance between -858 and 0 on a number line is 858, we get the answer as follows:
|-858| = 858
Note that the absolute value of -858 can also be written as abs(-858) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -857
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