The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 918 or -918?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -918?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-918| = ?
The absolute value of -918 is the distance between -918 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -918:
Since the distance between -918 and 0 on a number line is 918, we get the answer as follows:
|-918| = 918
Note that the absolute value of -918 can also be written as abs(-918) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -917
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