The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 862 or -862?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -862?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-862| = ?
The absolute value of -862 is the distance between -862 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -862:
Since the distance between -862 and 0 on a number line is 862, we get the answer as follows:
|-862| = 862
Note that the absolute value of -862 can also be written as abs(-862) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -861
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