The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 889 or -889?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -889?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-889| = ?
The absolute value of -889 is the distance between -889 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -889:
Since the distance between -889 and 0 on a number line is 889, we get the answer as follows:
|-889| = 889
Note that the absolute value of -889 can also be written as abs(-889) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -888
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