The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 877 or -877?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -877?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-877| = ?
The absolute value of -877 is the distance between -877 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -877:
Since the distance between -877 and 0 on a number line is 877, we get the answer as follows:
|-877| = 877
Note that the absolute value of -877 can also be written as abs(-877) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -876
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