The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 874 or -874?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -874?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-874| = ?
The absolute value of -874 is the distance between -874 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -874:
Since the distance between -874 and 0 on a number line is 874, we get the answer as follows:
|-874| = 874
Note that the absolute value of -874 can also be written as abs(-874) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -873
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