The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 876 or -876?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -876?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-876| = ?
The absolute value of -876 is the distance between -876 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -876:
Since the distance between -876 and 0 on a number line is 876, we get the answer as follows:
|-876| = 876
Note that the absolute value of -876 can also be written as abs(-876) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -875
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