The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 887 or -887?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -887?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-887| = ?
The absolute value of -887 is the distance between -887 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -887:
Since the distance between -887 and 0 on a number line is 887, we get the answer as follows:
|-887| = 887
Note that the absolute value of -887 can also be written as abs(-887) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -886
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