The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 501 or -501?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -501?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-501| = ?
The absolute value of -501 is the distance between -501 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -501:
Since the distance between -501 and 0 on a number line is 501, we get the answer as follows:
|-501| = 501
Note that the absolute value of -501 can also be written as abs(-501) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -500
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