The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 927 or -927?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -927?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-927| = ?
The absolute value of -927 is the distance between -927 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -927:

Since the distance between -927 and 0 on a number line is 927, we get the answer as follows:
|-927| = 927
Note that the absolute value of -927 can also be written as abs(-927) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -926
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