The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 885 or -885?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -885?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-885| = ?
The absolute value of -885 is the distance between -885 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -885:
Since the distance between -885 and 0 on a number line is 885, we get the answer as follows:
|-885| = 885
Note that the absolute value of -885 can also be written as abs(-885) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -884
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