The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 499 or -499?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -499?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-499| = ?
The absolute value of -499 is the distance between -499 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -499:
Since the distance between -499 and 0 on a number line is 499, we get the answer as follows:
|-499| = 499
Note that the absolute value of -499 can also be written as abs(-499) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -498
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