The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 943 or -943?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -943?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-943| = ?
The absolute value of -943 is the distance between -943 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -943:

Since the distance between -943 and 0 on a number line is 943, we get the answer as follows:
|-943| = 943
Note that the absolute value of -943 can also be written as abs(-943) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -942
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