The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 891 or -891?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -891?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-891| = ?
The absolute value of -891 is the distance between -891 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -891:

Since the distance between -891 and 0 on a number line is 891, we get the answer as follows:
|-891| = 891
Note that the absolute value of -891 can also be written as abs(-891) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -890
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