The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 491 or -491?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -491?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-491| = ?
The absolute value of -491 is the distance between -491 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -491:
Since the distance between -491 and 0 on a number line is 491, we get the answer as follows:
|-491| = 491
Note that the absolute value of -491 can also be written as abs(-491) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -490
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