The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 490 or -490?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -490?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-490| = ?
The absolute value of -490 is the distance between -490 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -490:
Since the distance between -490 and 0 on a number line is 490, we get the answer as follows:
|-490| = 490
Note that the absolute value of -490 can also be written as abs(-490) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -489
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