The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 498 or -498?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -498?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-498| = ?
The absolute value of -498 is the distance between -498 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -498:
Since the distance between -498 and 0 on a number line is 498, we get the answer as follows:
|-498| = 498
Note that the absolute value of -498 can also be written as abs(-498) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -497
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