The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 865 or -865?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -865?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-865| = ?
The absolute value of -865 is the distance between -865 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -865:
Since the distance between -865 and 0 on a number line is 865, we get the answer as follows:
|-865| = 865
Note that the absolute value of -865 can also be written as abs(-865) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -864
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