The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 955 or -955?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -955?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-955| = ?
The absolute value of -955 is the distance between -955 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -955:

Since the distance between -955 and 0 on a number line is 955, we get the answer as follows:
|-955| = 955
Note that the absolute value of -955 can also be written as abs(-955) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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