The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 867 or -867?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -867?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-867| = ?
The absolute value of -867 is the distance between -867 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -867:
Since the distance between -867 and 0 on a number line is 867, we get the answer as follows:
|-867| = 867
Note that the absolute value of -867 can also be written as abs(-867) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -866
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