The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 956 or -956?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -956?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-956| = ?
The absolute value of -956 is the distance between -956 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -956:
Since the distance between -956 and 0 on a number line is 956, we get the answer as follows:
|-956| = 956
Note that the absolute value of -956 can also be written as abs(-956) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -955
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