The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 896 or -896?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -896?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-896| = ?
The absolute value of -896 is the distance between -896 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -896:

Since the distance between -896 and 0 on a number line is 896, we get the answer as follows:
|-896| = 896
Note that the absolute value of -896 can also be written as abs(-896) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -895
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