The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 496 or -496?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -496?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-496| = ?
The absolute value of -496 is the distance between -496 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -496:
Since the distance between -496 and 0 on a number line is 496, we get the answer as follows:
|-496| = 496
Note that the absolute value of -496 can also be written as abs(-496) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -495
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