The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 494 or -494?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -494?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-494| = ?
The absolute value of -494 is the distance between -494 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -494:
Since the distance between -494 and 0 on a number line is 494, we get the answer as follows:
|-494| = 494
Note that the absolute value of -494 can also be written as abs(-494) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -493
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