The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 942 or -942?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -942?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-942| = ?
The absolute value of -942 is the distance between -942 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -942:
Since the distance between -942 and 0 on a number line is 942, we get the answer as follows:
|-942| = 942
Note that the absolute value of -942 can also be written as abs(-942) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -941
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