The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 940 or -940?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -940?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-940| = ?
The absolute value of -940 is the distance between -940 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -940:
Since the distance between -940 and 0 on a number line is 940, we get the answer as follows:
|-940| = 940
Note that the absolute value of -940 can also be written as abs(-940) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -939
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