The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 897 or -897?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -897?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-897| = ?
The absolute value of -897 is the distance between -897 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -897:

Since the distance between -897 and 0 on a number line is 897, we get the answer as follows:
|-897| = 897
Note that the absolute value of -897 can also be written as abs(-897) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -896
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