The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 961 or -961?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -961?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-961| = ?
The absolute value of -961 is the distance between -961 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -961:
Since the distance between -961 and 0 on a number line is 961, we get the answer as follows:
|-961| = 961
Note that the absolute value of -961 can also be written as abs(-961) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -960
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