The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 890 or -890?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -890?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-890| = ?
The absolute value of -890 is the distance between -890 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -890:
Since the distance between -890 and 0 on a number line is 890, we get the answer as follows:
|-890| = 890
Note that the absolute value of -890 can also be written as abs(-890) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -889
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