The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 962 or -962?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -962?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-962| = ?
The absolute value of -962 is the distance between -962 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -962:
Since the distance between -962 and 0 on a number line is 962, we get the answer as follows:
|-962| = 962
Note that the absolute value of -962 can also be written as abs(-962) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -961
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