The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 920 or -920?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -920?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-920| = ?
The absolute value of -920 is the distance between -920 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -920:
Since the distance between -920 and 0 on a number line is 920, we get the answer as follows:
|-920| = 920
Note that the absolute value of -920 can also be written as abs(-920) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -919
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