The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 900 or -900?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -900?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-900| = ?
The absolute value of -900 is the distance between -900 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -900:
Since the distance between -900 and 0 on a number line is 900, we get the answer as follows:
|-900| = 900
Note that the absolute value of -900 can also be written as abs(-900) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -899
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