The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 950 or -950?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -950?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-950| = ?
The absolute value of -950 is the distance between -950 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -950:
Since the distance between -950 and 0 on a number line is 950, we get the answer as follows:
|-950| = 950
Note that the absolute value of -950 can also be written as abs(-950) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -949
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