The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 497 or -497?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -497?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-497| = ?
The absolute value of -497 is the distance between -497 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -497:
Since the distance between -497 and 0 on a number line is 497, we get the answer as follows:
|-497| = 497
Note that the absolute value of -497 can also be written as abs(-497) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -496
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