The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 917 or -917?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -917?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-917| = ?
The absolute value of -917 is the distance between -917 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -917:
Since the distance between -917 and 0 on a number line is 917, we get the answer as follows:
|-917| = 917
Note that the absolute value of -917 can also be written as abs(-917) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -916
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