The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 880 or -880?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -880?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-880| = ?
The absolute value of -880 is the distance between -880 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -880:
Since the distance between -880 and 0 on a number line is 880, we get the answer as follows:
|-880| = 880
Note that the absolute value of -880 can also be written as abs(-880) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -879
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