The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 959 or -959?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -959?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-959| = ?
The absolute value of -959 is the distance between -959 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -959:
Since the distance between -959 and 0 on a number line is 959, we get the answer as follows:
|-959| = 959
Note that the absolute value of -959 can also be written as abs(-959) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -958
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