The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 958 or -958?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -958?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-958| = ?
The absolute value of -958 is the distance between -958 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -958:
Since the distance between -958 and 0 on a number line is 958, we get the answer as follows:
|-958| = 958
Note that the absolute value of -958 can also be written as abs(-958) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -957
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