The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 859 or -859?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -859?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-859| = ?
The absolute value of -859 is the distance between -859 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -859:
Since the distance between -859 and 0 on a number line is 859, we get the answer as follows:
|-859| = 859
Note that the absolute value of -859 can also be written as abs(-859) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -858
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