The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 965 or -965?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -965?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-965| = ?
The absolute value of -965 is the distance between -965 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -965:
Since the distance between -965 and 0 on a number line is 965, we get the answer as follows:
|-965| = 965
Note that the absolute value of -965 can also be written as abs(-965) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -964
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