The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 866 or -866?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -866?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-866| = ?
The absolute value of -866 is the distance between -866 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -866:
Since the distance between -866 and 0 on a number line is 866, we get the answer as follows:
|-866| = 866
Note that the absolute value of -866 can also be written as abs(-866) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -865
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