The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 966 or -966?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -966?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-966| = ?
The absolute value of -966 is the distance between -966 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -966:
Since the distance between -966 and 0 on a number line is 966, we get the answer as follows:
|-966| = 966
Note that the absolute value of -966 can also be written as abs(-966) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -965
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