The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 888 or -888?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -888?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-888| = ?
The absolute value of -888 is the distance between -888 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -888:
Since the distance between -888 and 0 on a number line is 888, we get the answer as follows:
|-888| = 888
Note that the absolute value of -888 can also be written as abs(-888) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -887
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