The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 939 or -939?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -939?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-939| = ?
The absolute value of -939 is the distance between -939 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -939:
Since the distance between -939 and 0 on a number line is 939, we get the answer as follows:
|-939| = 939
Note that the absolute value of -939 can also be written as abs(-939) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -938
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