The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 500 or -500?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -500?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-500| = ?
The absolute value of -500 is the distance between -500 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -500:
Since the distance between -500 and 0 on a number line is 500, we get the answer as follows:
|-500| = 500
Note that the absolute value of -500 can also be written as abs(-500) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -499
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